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How to develop

yourself as a leader

Much of my professional life has been spent in trying to
persuade organisations of all sizes to grow their own leaders. In
that work, as I once heard a US bishop say, I have had enough
success to prevent me from despair and enough failure to keep
me humble. But from experience and observation I have to tell
you that most good leaders emerge and grow in spite of their
organisations rather than because of them. Moreover, you will
most probably work for five or six organisations in your career,
so none of them will be quite as committed to your long-term
development as you are. How then do you develop yourself as
a leader?

There is no infallible system or set of systems, I am afraid. You
are a unique person, with a unique path of leadership in front
of you. Nobody can teach you the way: you have to find it for