Welcome to The Seven Tasks of Leadership. This blog describes the seven crucial tasks that must be tackled in order to become truly effective as a leader. It draws upon 25 years of consulting experience, working with thousands of leaders in a wide variety of different businesses and organizations across the world. It combines this practical, real-life experience with an in-depth understanding of the leadership literature to offer a manual that distils the seven crucial tasks that must be tackled in order to become truly effective as a leader. If you perform all seven of these tasks and execute them reasonably well, you will be a better leader than 95% of the leaders I have ever worked with.