Re: Leadership or Management?
Whilst it would be great to have a combination of the two the overriding preference at waterfront level must surely be for character leadership, character leadership up the line as well at the working level. A leader may have his eager beavers around him to sort out the management side of things but please do not promote them into the leader slot because once they are in power they tend to promote others in their image, the self perpetuating pillock system.
The influences of political correctness and "one mistake and your damned" are in danger of making it difficult for the character leader to compete against the "does all the right things" management specialist who will never inspire "I would follow him/her anywhere" loyalty.