FOOT SHOOTING IN PROGRESS AT LAUNCESTON'S TOWN HALL

 

Trust comes down to two things: character and competence. Character includes maturity, integrity and it is what motivates intent. Competence is to do with capabilities, skills, and a track record. Character and competence together are vital and they need to be found together. 

Competence has to do with keeping your head in troubling times, sticking with the task even when it threatens to overwhelm. Improvisation involves one's ingenuity, determination and preparedness for go or do that extra bit. 

When confidence and competence are not on display it is like watching precious water drain away down some plughole. It is always distressing, rarely acceptable and never so in a crisis. 

Strength, courage and confidence is found in every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face, and that is leadership. 

Being able to say 'I have lived through this horror, so I can deal with the next thing that comes along' is the mark of real leadership. 

Leaders must do the thing that they think they cannot do even if it means that cooperation and collaboration is required.

Showmanship is not leadership and it is comedic when one is passed off as the other.