Question for Peter Cosgrove

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General,

So what has changed in your world?

ADDRESS to the group of Eight Universities
HR/IR Conference
by GENERAL PETER COSGROVE, AC, MC
Leadership Challenges - Lessons Learnt

Friday 22 August 2003

Leadership Fundamentals

All leaders must accept the human resource bottom line-that they are responsible-full stop-for both the good and bad which occurs within their organisation.
Genuine leadership is arguably the supreme professional test of all CEOs, managers and supervisors-in every organisation.
In my experience, leaders, who exercise their authority in a humane and compassionate way, are, in the main, the most successful over the long term. But even more important is the positive and sustaining effects that such a style has on those who are led. Simply put, because people will want to work for you they will optimise their productivity accordingly. The opposite is true of those organisations whose work-place culture revolves around the dual motivations of greed and fear.

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