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...simple illustration of the point is that it is impossible to think of leading without the presence of following – not everyone can lead all of the time and, likewise, not everyone can follow all of the time (Ford and Harding, 2015). Focusing on leadership as a practice inevitably means you think about the kinds of practices you create together, rather than looking...

...simple fact is we need spending in our economy, but we need it to be spending that is going to build a sustainable recovery. That means we need spending, but it must be spending that improves people’s balance sheets, rather than worsens the balance sheets. Rather than just borrowing extra to carry on spending on things that we’re going to have to cut in two years’...

...simple terms, it's getting people to do a task, whether that task is going to the shops and getting the shopping, whether that task is running an air station, which is something I've had to do in a previous job. And when I say people, that can be one person. If I'm flying along, I've got a wingman, I'm leading that wing man around the place. If I'm leading an air station,...

...simple: the supermarket exists to sell goods – principally food, groceries and clothes – to its customers, who are ordinary people buying basic goods for themselves and their families. Tesco will be judged on its success in terms of its volume of sales and what this represents in terms of profit. By taking a very different example, such as a hospital, then you can see...