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    Management Truths – 100 Ways to Whow! Your Organisation: 100 Observations on Leadership and Management to Read, Make Your Own, Use and Pass On!
    Management Truths – 100 Ways to Whow! Your Organisation: 100 Observations on Leadership and Management to Read, Make Your Own, Use and Pass On!
    Management Truths – 100 Ways to Whow! Your Organisation: 100 Observations on Leadership and Management to Read, Make Your Own, Use and Pass On!
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    Management Truths – 100 Ways to Whow! Your Organisation: 100 Observations on Leadership and Management to Read, Make Your Own, Use and Pass On!

    By Clive Leake

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    This book is a collection of 100 short, wry, insightful observations and truths about management and leadership. The author, Clive Leake, has drawn from over 25 years of experience in leadership and management development having supported and coached hundreds of professionals in a wide range of sectors and industries.

    Read this book if you want:

    The truth about leadership and management A light, fun way to improve your leadership and management knowledge, skills and behaviour Punchy sound bites An easy way to learn to be more effective as a leader and manager Key words and phrases to liven up your briefings, presentations, public speaking etc. An easy read Something practical and pragmatic

    More of a coffee machine than a coffee table book, each observation stands alone, captures the essence of a particular theme in a succinct, witty and easily accessible format and is supported in a highly visual, humorous way. There are one hundred in the book so do feel free to dip in and out whenever you feel like a 60 second boost!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateDec 12, 2013
    ISBN9781493121489
    Management Truths – 100 Ways to Whow! Your Organisation: 100 Observations on Leadership and Management to Read, Make Your Own, Use and Pass On!
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    Clive Leake

    Clive Leake is the founder of Whow! Leadership and has more than 25 years’ experience as a 121 business coach and leadership development specialist. With a background in behavioural psychology, Clive specialises in working with business leaders, boards of directors, executives and managers at all levels examining how their behaviour impacts on their organisation or team. He has worked globally with companies in a variety of sectors and is an accomplished speaker and author. Clive has held Senior Management and Executive positions in the FMCG, Paper, Manufacturing and Financial Services industries. He has considerable international experience, coaching executives and facilitating senior team development in Australia, China, USA, Thailand, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and most European countries. An accredited Member of the Association for Coaching, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Member of the Chartered Management Institute, Clive is an accomplished public speaker and has spoken at numerous conferences and seminars. Clive is the author of  ‘The Z-A of Coaching’ and ‘Management Truths’  is his second book. He has also developed 3 successful online questionnaire and development guides: The Management Workout (used by over 1500 leaders and managers), The Coaching Workout and The Lean Workouts. Clive has two young sons and lives in Derbyshire, England.

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      Management Truths – 100 Ways to Whow! Your Organisation - Clive Leake

      MANAGEMENT TRUTHS—

      100 Ways to Whow! Your Organisation

      100 Observations On Leadership and Management To Read,

      Make Your Own, Use and Pass On!

      Clive Leake

      Copyright © 2013 by Clive Leake.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Rev. date: 11/25/2013

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris LLC

      0-800-056-3182

      www.xlibrispublishing.co.uk

      Orders@xlibrispublishing.co.uk

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      CONTENTS

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      MARK WOOD, CARTOONIST

      INTRODUCTION

      MANAGEMENT TRUTHS AND OBSERVATIONS

      ABOUT WHOW! LEADERSHIP

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      Clare—for all her patience and hard work in making sense of my random thoughts and terrible grammar! David—for his contribution in developing the initial content of this book. Mark—for his great cartoons. Sue—for her unwavering and continued support. My two sons, Thomas and Charlie—for never ceasing to amaze and inspire me with their energy, insight, inquisitive minds, and humour. But mostly for keeping my feet firmly on the ground as to them I’m just Dad!

      Last but not least, all the leaders and managers whom I’ve met, coached, supported, and worked with. They have all contributed to this book in their own way!

      MARK WOOD, CARTOONIST

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      Mark Wood is a freelance cartoonist and illustrator with his first cartoons published at the age of 14. Since then, more than 5,000 of his cartoons have been published worldwide. His work has appeared in publications including Private Eye, The Spectator, The Times, The Sun and the New Statesman.

      He has also illustrated several books and been commissioned by the likes of British Petroleum, Persimmon Homes, and the National Health Service.

      You can find his website featuring a large selection of his work at www.markwoodcartoonist.co.uk.

      INTRODUCTION

      There are few things in life quite as satisfying as finding just the right words to express succinctly what’s intended, at just the right time. That’s always been true, and with the advent of recent technology, it is perhaps even more so for managers and leaders in business today.

      As managers, we live in a YouTube world of sound bites and instant messaging, a world in which brevity, buzzwords, management-speak, and pace are paramount and impact highly important.

      Internet, email, tablet, and smartphone technology have fundamentally changed the way in which we access, learn from, and share information. In short, the communications revolution has arrived, and the rules of the game have changed. The days of having to wade through a 300-page business ‘novel’ or textbook to get, at most, two good ideas are over. There is no need for you to sit through two or three days of mind-numbing executive development just to get the ‘golden nugget’ on day 2 in the late afternoon and covered in less than three minutes on the day.

      Welcome to the new world! Welcome to the world of Whow!

      This book is a collection of short, wry, though equally insightful observations and thoughts about management and leadership drawn from the experience of having worked closely with thousands of professionals over more years than I am prepared to admit to publicly!

      More of a coffee-machine than a coffee-table book, each observation stands alone and captures the essence of a particular theme in a succinct, witty, and easily accessible way. There are 100 in the book, so do feel free to dip in and out whenever you feel like having a 60-second boost!

      Much of the content is original and inspired by years of practice at making leadership practical, pragmatic, and easily understandable for managers in a wide variety of disciplines. Of course, there may be a number that, despite my firm belief, are of my own invention and were inspired by something, either heard or read elsewhere. Truly, original thought is, when all is said and done, a very rare commodity.

      I started out by saying that few things in life are quite as satisfying as being able to find just the right words at just the right time. Well, there is perhaps one thing that beats it, and that’s being credited with having been the first to have said it!

      It is on that note that I invite you to read and use any of the truths, sound bites, or observations contained in this book, or just make them your own.

      So what about you? Do you have some original (truly or otherwise) thoughts or observations of your own that you’d like to share with others? I would be delighted to hear from you should you wish us to consider them for possible inclusion in the next edition: More Management Truths—100 Further Ways to Whow! Your Organisation.

      You can send your contributions to me at clive@whowleadership.com, and of course, I’ll give you full (or, at the very least, some) credit for any that are subsequently published.

      Finally, I hope that you find these observations humorous (at least some of them!), inspirational, but most importantly, thought-provoking.

      Enjoy the next 200 pages!

      MANAGEMENT TRUTHS AND OBSERVATIONS

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      1. L/ship shtns the dist between the obj and the rslt.

      Leadership shortens the distance between the objective and the result. Effective leadership sets direction and vision whether it’s organisational, departmental, team, or individual goals and objectives. Leadership helps people define and deliver where they are going and how they are going to get there, with leaders being just as responsible for the objectives as they are for the results.

      Removing internal and external barriers—anything that is getting in the way of the organisation operating efficiently—will ensure that the organisation delivers its objectives in the quickest possible time. Ensuring that the leadership process makes it easy for

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