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In the previous chapter, we described and defined the Primary Colors Model of leadership. The model describes the three domains in which leaders operate — the strategic, the operational and the interpersonal domains. We also looked briefly at five tasks of leadership that lie at the center of the model: the area we have called leading. These tasks are each described by a single verb — inspire, focus, enable, reinforce and learn.
The task of the leader is to get people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger
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Pendleton, D., Furnham, A. (2012). Five tasks of leading. In: Leadership: All You Need To Know. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230354425_5
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