Is this all you need to know about leadership?

What's the secret of great leadership?
Apologies readers, I'm writing this on my iPhone at St Pancras after a very stimulating day. I've met some amazing guys at Motherlode Studioes. They've made a very cool film called The Four Horsemen - an tough documentary about our financial crisis and the systemic problems we have created for ourselves. I urge you to google it, find out about it and look out for a local screening. I've met a very senior police officer here in the city of London police and I've spent a morning at an amazing youth charity called Street League - changing lives through football.
What a day!
I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that the techniques put forward in our modern leadership literature is only a part of the story. Really all you need to be an amazing leader is this;
Notice it
Step up
Carry on

That's what these amazing people I've met today, and others recently, have done. They've seen something that annoys them, they've had the guts to jump and they have grafted until it improves. And that's it.

Passion - performance- purpose.

All the techniques about skills and behaviour pale into insignificance in the face of a bloody minded desire to put something right, deal with an injustice, correct a corrupt system whatever it is, the great leaders have got off their backsides and done something.

So, just my top line thoughts on my day. There probably is more to leadership that the above but it's not a bad start and there are plenty of people doing a brilliant job of their little part of the world simply with some passion to do something about a problem and a bit of hard work.

Piers Carter