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Some themes refuse to go away. Across many organisations I work with — in sport, in the non-profit world, in the public sector — I keep meeting the same person: someone in their first real management role, with genuine ambition to grow as a leader, and almost no clear path for doing it. It's frustrating, but it isn't surprising. The same three barriers come up again and again. 3 - A Not-So-Magic Number Skills. Nobody has shown them how to delegate in a way that actually frees

A letter to leaders of purpose-driven, small or scaling organisations 1. Your challenges are likely different from what the mainstream business and organisational psychology and development books and articles say as they are often based on research in larger, for-profit organisations. 2. Your people are different from those working in large, relatively stable organisations and they experience pressures, stress, motivation and connection differently and they need different ski