The leadership script they never gave you.
The secret of confident leaders is not that they know more, but that they trust themselves more. Confidence is the container, and it can be developed and strengthened.
Self-serving pettiness arises when the greater vision is not being served The response of the Blue Bulls management to the pending appointment of their executive of rugby, Heyneke Meyer, as the new Springbok coach is an example of poor and petty leadership. They let him go, and then they childishly announced it the day before the Springboks had planned a massive public event to do the same - despite the Springbok management having asked them not to. However they spin it - and they're saying that they had invested resources [...]
Leadership by consensus is often no leadership at all. If you hand the same project with the same materials to a hundred children - or adults for that matter - you will get a hundred different results. Each one will be unique. OK, maybe a few cheats will copy the others, and maybe by some osmosis two of them might be very similar, but the point is that every person's solution to the same problem differs vastly from the next person's. If you just look at how uniquely every person's [...]
