Successful leadership is any organisation is always something of a paradox; in that the leadership credit their people for their organisation’s success and the people credit the leadership. It reality, successful leadership has always been a two-way street. Rudyard Kipling understood this principle: Listen to this excerpt taken from Kipling’s second ‘Jungle Book’.

“Now this is the Law of the Jungle – as old and as true as the sky;

And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.

As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the Law runneth forward and back –

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”

Leadership tip: Leaders hire people who are more intelligent than they are.