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Introduction to the week

Introducing the complexity around the idea of leadership
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Welcome to week 1.

This week you will come to understand the complexity around the idea of ‘leadership’. Though it is probably one of the most prominent terms used when trying to understand how organisations work, we tend to gloss over the assumptions that underpin our views of what leadership is supposed to be. In what follows, we will explore these implicit assumptions.

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