The Leadership Crash Course How to Create Personal Leadership Value Second edition Paul Taffinder Business Management Book of the Year Award Winner REAR COVER: "The Leadership Crash Course is a clear and lively primer on becoming a great leader. Illustrated with case studies, the book avoids excessive theory, concentrating on practical steps to creating value. Anyone in a senior position will draw inspiration from Paul Taffinder's book." Brent Hoberman, CEO, lastminute.com "Leadership is key in successful corporations. Paul Taffinder's Crash Course is an excellent hands-on guide for leaders in the real world; facing real world challenges⦠a must for every executive." JW Marriott, Jr, Chairman and CEO, Marriott International, Inc "Paul Taffinder's Crash Course makes excellent reading for whoever wants to reflect on leadership. It is based on real-life experiences and provides valuable hints on how to improve.
" Andre Bergen, CEO, KBC Group "Paul Taffinder's Leadership Crash Course distils the elusive concept of leadership into an indispensable practical primer of realistic steps and compelling case studies." Robin Paxton, Managing Director, Discovery Networks Europe "This is excellent. A book that gets to the nub of critical leadership issues⦠really thought-provoking and insightful, even for the most experienced managers." Tracy Robbins, Executive Vice President Global Human Resources, Intercontinental Hotels Group The Leadership Crash Course is a hard-hitting day-to-day guide to help executives and managers gain insight into their own leadership, then develop and hone the right skills to become powerful leaders. Genuine leadership makes a huge, often crucial, difference to the value that strategy, structure and organization offer. It moves things forward, it inspires action, it changes the world, it maximizes the likelihood of growth, attainment and success. Psychologist and award-winning author Dr Paul Taffinder pushes you to analyse your own strengths and weaknesses and then systematically build your personal capability to create leadership value. This book offers unprecedented access to insightful personal cases and real examples of both success and failure.
Paul Taffinder is a Partner at Marakon Associates, the leading strategy consulting firm and the world's foremost authority on value creation. Paul has advised dozens of Global 500 companies on leadership and has also written extensively about leadership and change, beginning with his first book The New Leaders (Kogan Page) and then Big Change, which won the prestigious Business Management Book of the Year Award in 1999 for what the judges called "his inspirational approach to corporate transformation". ptaffinder@marakon.com.