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Volume 4, Issue 2
1 June 1991
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Research Article| June 01 1991

Training for leadership

David Gilbert‐Smith
David Gilbert‐Smith
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6011
Print ISSN: 0953-3230
© MCB UP Limited
1991
Executive Development (1991) 4 (2)
https://doi.org/10.1108/09533239110138589

Defines leadership as winning the hearts and minds of people to achieve a common purpose. Discusses training for leadership as involving the “inner person”, the inner mental toughness, to cope with and handle the problems and pressures that confront us in today′s life. Concludes that leadership is probably the most important aspect of modern management.

Keywords: Leadership, Management styles, Management development, Training techniques
© MCB UP Limited
1991
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