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LEADERSHIP

Tightening your life jacket

Aidan Rave considers the importance of sustaining leadership in a time of upheaval.

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In every flight safety briefing, we're told to secure our own lifejacket before helping others. It's a simple instruction, but for leaders of public purpose organisations, it's a profound challenge.

These are people who are wired for service. They put others first instinctively; staff, communities, causes. It's what makes them effective, trusted and deeply human.

Aidan Rave

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