Paddy Mayne: Lt Col Blair 'Paddy' Mayne, 1 SAS Regiment (The true story behind the hit TV show SAS Rogue Heroes)

by Hamish Ross

Last of all, you have the right spirit, which I hope you will pass on to those who may join you in the future.

And among the reasons that Dempsey cited as evidence of the unit’s success, training, discipline, physical fitness and careful planning all point to the work of Mayne.

However, Field Marshal Slim added another dimension to the idea of leadership. ‘Leadership,’ he wrote, ‘is of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision; its practice is an art.’12

a theory of leadership put forward by James MacGregor Burns, who posited two categories of leadership: transactional leadership and transforming leadership.

transactional leadership is when a leadership act takes place, but not one that b...

Transforming leadership, on the other hand, is when ‘one or more engage with others in such a way that leader and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality’.13