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How to Lead: What You Actually Need to Do to Manage, Lead and Succeed (Paperback)

by Jo Owen (Author)
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This provocative yet practical book,  is the essential guide to the theory and practice of leadership - whatever your level in an organisation. It's both an indispensible yet entertaining guide to the core skills of leadership and a practical handbook for getting to the top and staying there - the single book guide to a successful career.

A unique and brilliant combination of authoritative guidance and stimulating and entertaining advice, it includes novel material on career limiting moves, advice on what to do when you look like you are about to become an involuntary member of the cock up club and how to lead by following.

This leadership handbook will help managers become leaders and help them rise to the top. It is the single book, whole career guide.



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How to Lead

 

What you actually need to DO to manage, lead and succeed

 

 

There’s no doubt about it – leadership skills are a very powerful career advantage. Every organization is looking for emerging leaders, and for those who stand out, there’s a bright future ahead.

 

The good news is that everybody can develop and show leadership skills, wherever you are in your career. It’s never too early, or too late.

 

An awful lot of guff has been written about leadership – whatever others would have you believe, you can be an effective leader even if you aren’t a composite of Nelson Mandela, Ghandi and Shackleton.

 

How to Lead is the book to cut through the daunting hero talk, the nonsense and the fluff. Put simply, leadership is about what you do and how you behave, so that’s what this book is about.

 

Based on actual research, it sets out the practical skills and behaviours that distinguish effective from less effective leaders, and shows you how to develop and deliver these vital assets.

 

It doesn’t absolutely guarantee success, but it loads the dice in your favour.



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84 of 85 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars In My Top Three, 26 Aug 2006
By J. Mcgregor "jiy126" - See all my reviews
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I've read enough management books to fill an MBA course, but this is head and shoulders above most of them, and is easily one to the top three I've managed to finish. If you're wondering how to motivate a team, how to stay positive and how to inspire you'll find common sense answers here. It will give you the confidence and understanding that while we can't all be Winston Churchill, Alex Ferguson or Billy Graham, we can still lead effectively and powerfully in our own way.
There's not many books, never mind business books, that I finish and immeadiately want to start again, but this is one of them. It's easy to read, employs an enjoyable dry wit and knocks the galloping balderdash of so many American development gurus into a cocked hat. Read and enjoy.
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56 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Astonishing. Really., 30 Jun 2006
By H. Lewis "JellyReader" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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I've read just about every business book there is. I love them. This book, however, stands out as one that I would totally recommend to anyone in a management postion - or anyone who wants to be there. Practical advice abounds, as does humour. It's very honest about the challenges of work, of leading a team and the snippets of wisdom are priceless. Put it like this - I've been buying stuff on amazon for years and this is the first review i think I've written! I've just started a job leading a small team and this book is helping me cope with all the new challenges it brings. Buy it.
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53 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Book to end all Books on Leadership, 18 Mar 2005
I am tired of reading business books that do not lead to action, are full of cliches, and which are not related in any way to reality. How to Lead is a refreshing, humorous and highly practical guide (as the title suggests) to this topic earthed in real experience, full of insights into what works and what does not, without being patronising and without celebrating 'The [one and only] Way' to success - a trap which I find too many books in this genre fall into. The other great message of this book is that leadership can be learnt by almost everybody, and you don't have to be a CEO of a stocklisted company with an MBA and the right parents to be one, or be a charismatic visionary freedom fighter either.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent really accessible book!
This is an excellent book which distills the essence of what it takes to be an effective leader into one very readable volume. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Gemima G

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, practical book
I enjoyed reading this book and it has lots of useful guidance and advice. The book looks at leadership from three different perspectives: from someone just starting out as a... Read more
Published 5 months ago by S. Gale

1.0 out of 5 stars Boring - we've heard it all before
Yet another management book that takes what we already know, dresses it up and then sells it back to us. Nothing new, nothing original, nothing worth paying for. Give it a miss!
Published 14 months ago by manager

5.0 out of 5 stars Lead better
Great stuff from Jo Owen. I've always tried to play the straight man with my guys. If they're bad, I will quite literally lead them round the office by their nose, over desks... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Gaz Pacho

5.0 out of 5 stars A cracking book
This book is fantastic. A real eye-opener. It says obvious things when you read it, but you'd never think of it otherwise. Read more
Published 24 months ago by J. Hughes

5.0 out of 5 stars Plain talking
Most business book authors feel that they have to establish their credibility by filling each chapter with incrompehensible MBA jargon. Read more
Published on 27 Feb 2006 by John Hempsey

5.0 out of 5 stars How to Lead
This books turns leadership theory upside down and approaches it from a new angle. It is refreshing to know that there are people out there who are open to taking a new approach... Read more
Published on 1 April 2005 by siaens

5.0 out of 5 stars How to Lead
This books turns leadership theory upside down and approaches it from a new angle. It is refreshing to know that there are people out there who are open to taking a new approach... Read more
Published on 1 April 2005 by siaens

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