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The Value Perspective with Air Marshall Sir Graham Stacey

The Value Perspective

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How Do You Prepare Someone to Deal With Ambiguity?

The single biggest difference between a very competent mid level manager and a genuine strategic leader, i would say it's his or her ability to deal with ambiguity. In the air force, for three years, we ran a development programme called the senior leadership development programme. We were taking in r level ar people who were just entering air rank, or just becoming generals - one star, two star generals. It was preparing em for that role,. often that they were genuinely having to deal withambiguity at the same time. I mean, did everyone walk out fantastic? No, they didn't. Became pretty clear who were goin to be the stars of the future and who weren’t

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