How To Lead: What You Actually Need To Do To Manage, Lead And Succeed

This provocative practical book is the essential guide to the theory and practice of leadership—whatever your level in an organisation. It's both an indispensable 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. It offers more focus on moments of truth, such as firing people (and how not to be fired), conflicts, managing the awkward squad, the politics of navigating your career, and projecting confidence. Fundamentally different from most leadership books, it is for leaders at all levels, providing alternative perspectives on leadership—mixing practical experience and theory. It also provides the top ten tools and techniques that all leaders should master, highlighting the perils and pitfalls of leadership and how to avoid them.