Leadership & business practices

The context:

Alistair Campbell – Uk Prime Minister Tony Blair’s strategist and spokesperson, best defines the characteristics of ‘good leadership’. It is

  • The ability to make decisions
  • The ability to fit them within a clearly understood beliefs or values
  • The ability to communicate and build support for them
  • The possession of a vision for their organisation, their country and, where relevant for the world
  • A clear sense of their own role within in it.

Leadership is not just about management or delegation. It is not just about problem-solving.

It is about knowing where you want to lead to, knowing how to achieve this and how to take others with you, focussing on all the opportunities, and using them to proceed to your stated goals. And being able to distinguish what’s important and what’s not.

It’s making the big decisions that separates the true leaders from the rest. The good ones take responsibility for them too. No leader will ever get every decision right. So, another important facet of leadership is knowing when to reverse a decision, when to change course without too many reserves being drained from the credibility bank.

This is coupled with our belief in providing and promoting leading-edge resources that are people-centred, describe evidence-informed practices that represent the most advanced or innovative aspect of a field, activity, profession. It is about ideas, practices and processes that are innovative and push the boundaries of current knowledge.

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