Leadership is at least as much about systems as it is about skills.
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So much of the conversation is about teaching leaders the right "skills". Even worse, we talk about skills, when we really mean knowledge.
As if there's some set of techniques that will make anyone a "Great Leader" ™️
Leadership, and so many other aspects of ability, is so dependent on the context (or system) in which that ability is deployed.
What works well in one place at a particular time, is less effective or even actively detrimental elsewhere.
Example:
A leadership style the favours empowering your team that worked great in an early stage, well aligned business could be a disaster in a chaotic, poorly aligned, fast growing scale up.
Still desirable to get to, but the conditions to implement aren't met.
@rhughesjones and I dig into the in a bit more detail here:
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