The 60 Second Leader

This book is the distillation of 30 essential elements of leadership into 60 second digestible chapters. There are also 30 true 60 Second Leader Tales in between the chapters to help bring some of the leader leraning points to life.

PRAISE FOR THE 60 SECOND LEADER

"A good prescription for all of us! Hope the book does well." Guy Kawasaki, Garage.com. Author, Rules for Revolutionaries and The Art of The Start

"I was very impressed. I approached it as a cynic, thinking it was going to be one of those 'MBA in a day' things. But, I enjoyed it. It's very well put together." Steve Parks, CEO, The Red Group

"Well done on your refreshing approach to leadership. I recommended your book to a large conference yesterday. Keep going - this world needs people like you." David Taylor, Author, The Naked Leader

"The book is great. I'm really enjoying reading it; very informative, easy to read and a bit irreverent which I really like. I will recommend it to all my friends. It deserves a wide readership!" Jon Harding, Senior HR Manager in charge of Leadership Development, Intercontinental Hotels Group

About the Author.

Who this book is for.

Introduction: The 60-Second PhD in Leadership.

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP.

1. Failure.

2. Intuition.

3. Decisions.

4. Connection.

5. Luck.

6. Optimism.

LEADING THE ORGANIZATION.

7. Strategy.

8. Competition.

9. Action.

10. Execution.

11. Management.

12. Change.

LEADING PEOPLE.

13. Questions.

14. Attention.

15. Stories.

16. Motivation.

THE 60-SECOND LEADER.

17. Engagement.

18. Targets.

DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP.

19. Innovation.

20. Culture.

21. Leading from the middle.

22. Customers.

23. Frontline leadership (1).

24. Frontline leadership (2).

GREAT LEADERSHIP.

25. Ego.

26. Humility.

27. Fear.

28. Love.

29. Presence.

30. Legacy.

Where next?

Index.

"Whether you are a 'would-be' leader or a 'should-be' leader, this great little book is for you...brilliant and affordable" (Edge, October 2007)

"It's packed full of words of wisdom and anecdotes alongside advice, quotes and stories collected by author Phil Dourado." (Construction Manager, January 2008)

“refreshing…concise publication”. (Modus Operandi, Spring 2008)

Phil Dourado is a leadership consultant, speaker, author and journalist. His specialist area is helping large companies develop a global community of leaders who learn from each other online. He has written for a number of national newspapers and magazines, including the telegraph, the Independent, GQ, The Observers and The Business. He edited two business-to-business journals before spending five years researching and defining great leadership practice as a director of the Inspired Leaders Network. This, his second book on leadership, grew out of research into distilling the essence of leadership for the 60 Second Leader online development system. It follows the same principle of bite-size nuggets that can be digested quickly by busy leaders and put into action immediately to improve their leadership performance. Phil has an MA in history from Cambridge University and splits h is time between consulting, researching, writing, parenting and caring for his wife, who has Huntington's disease. you can reach him through www.PhilDourado.com. Why do you need this book?

There are too many leadership books, too many leadership theories, too many leadership courses, and no time to filter out the good from the bad from the just plain boring.

Whether you are the CEO of a public company or the head of your own little empire of one, you don't have time to wade through all the leadership information. You need a high impact, time saving guide to the essentials.

THE 60 SECOND LEADER does the research and the filtering for you. It distils thirty essential elements of leadership into 60 second bites, interlaced with thirty tales to help bring the learning to life.

You're too busy to read everything you need to read on leadership, So don't. Let THE 60 SECOND LEADER be your short-cut guide.

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