Chapter 10

The How, What, and Why of Leadership

This book has taken a particular approach to leadership—leadership as a craft that is realized in the interactions between people. The premise of the book is that all of us practice that craft, but few of us are masters. Few of us are masters because we don’t work on getting better at that craft in the way that the masters of any craft consciously work on getting better at their craft. To get better requires conscious effort to get better, and it also requires the meta-skill of reflective practice—the ability to pay attention to your own practice and be aware of how your own actions contribute in both positive and negative ways to the results you want. I have focused on how to do that.

In focusing ...

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