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What defines effective leadership in sport?
A composite image of Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta and Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola

WHAT defines leadership? Genuine, effective, outstanding leadership?  

Where you galvanise and motivate people to trust and follow your instructions to the letter, not because they’re being forced to, through an imposed hierarchy, but because they intrinsically believe in what you’re saying.  

I’d venture that you need the requisite experience, resilience, skills and competence before you even start the conversation. What then? 

Sean Dyche's EI

Nathan Jones lacking EI

Odegaard on Arteta’s EI

 

Arteta’s empathy

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