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The makings of great leaders

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Leadership, Michael Bond learns from two new books, is not about getting people to do things, it is about getting them to want to do things — and it emerged on the African plains.

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Bond, M. The makings of great leaders. Nature 466, 819–820 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/466819a

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