THE human race is extremely well thought out. There are leaders and there are followers. A leader is a person who others are willing to follow, for what they believe to be their common good.

Sir John Harvey-Jones once said: "The art of management/leadership is to take people with you."

In the normal course of events, there is a training solution to every problem. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

My generation still regards personal example as a fundamental principle of leadership. We look for evidence of moral fibre and high personal standards, self-confidence, intellectual capacity.

One of the secrets of management/ leadership, is the ability to delegate, then to allow the person tasked with the job to get on with it.

Inadequates prefer to surround themselves with personal coteries of "yes men/women," while the "natural leader" makes objective decisions.

H M Armed Forces sets an excellent example in their personnel management policies, when it is acknowledged that each individual has his/her "natural ceiling".

I recall the wisdom of Field Marshal Lord Slim's comments when he said: "There are no good battalions, no bad battalions, only good officers and bad officers. See that you are good officers"!

Never was there a time in our nation's history, when sound leadership in every facet of life, was more needed.

We have an excellent example in the sound moral leadership of Her Majesty The Queen. God Bless Her!

COUNTY COUNCILLOR TOM WAREING,

Redditch.