Idea 5: Leadership characteristics – individual element
Dealing successfully with individuals is very different from dealing with your team as a group, although justice is common to both. Somehow you've got to balance the qualities of self-confidence and audacity with those of compassion and humility if you're to do the job really well.
Whilst the whole may be greater than the sum of the parts, the whole is made up of parts – each individual contribution counts.
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