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    Leadership Rules: 50 Timeless Lessons for Leaders
    Leadership Rules: 50 Timeless Lessons for Leaders
    Leadership Rules: 50 Timeless Lessons for Leaders
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    Leadership Rules: 50 Timeless Lessons for Leaders

    By Jo Owen

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    From the man behind the bestselling How to series comes more essential business wisdom…and this time, it's nicely broken up into 50 digestible nuggets. This is dip-in, dip-out content – easily read, understood and implemented and complete with engaging illustrations.

    There are a handful of truly inspired and inspirational leaders in the world – you know who they are… and probably wish you were one of them. But leadership isn't easy – some say it's an innate quality, a natural skill that only a select few demonstrate – but this thinking is nonsense, according Jo Owen. We can all become respected and effective leaders if we just follow some fundamental rules.

    Jo has studied what makes leaders effective everywhere – from the world's leading banks and management consultancies, to the world's oldest tribes in Africa. And he has distilled his observations into 50 practical rules that we can all follow and use to become the leaders we aspire to be.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWiley
    Release dateNov 22, 2011
    ISBN9780857082459
    Leadership Rules: 50 Timeless Lessons for Leaders
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    Jo Owen

    Jo Owen is the author of 20 books, which have been translated into more than 20 languages and with UK sales exceeding 150,000 copies. He is also the only four-time winning author of the Chartered Management Institute Gold Award. In addition to being an author, Jo was previously the founder of eight NGOs, including Teach First. He appears regularly across national media, and is a sought-after international keynote speaker. Jo has previously published books with Kogan Page, Wiley and Pearson.

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      Leadership Rules - Jo Owen

      THE QUALITIES OF A LEADER

      INTRODUCTION

      For thousands of years, leaders have got by without having an MBA. If kings and queens needed smart people, they could find plenty of churchmen to provide the brains. And even today, if you look at the planet’s top billionaires, they are largely an MBA-free zone. None of the tribal leaders who feature in this book have MBAs, and many of them cannot read.

      So there is something more to leadership than having all the skills that a business school can give you. Those skills are important, but they are not enough.

      When looking for a leader, tribes do not look at formal qualifications. They look at the person. They do not look at the person’s DNA: they are not looking for some innate quality such as charisma and inspiration. They are looking for a simpler set of personal qualities which any of us can acquire with enough effort and determination.

      By looking at what makes good tribal leaders and historical leaders, we can find the essence of what makes a good leader today. Leadership in the tribal world is leadership stripped bare: it is the leadership without the corporate life support systems that enable us and imprison us at the same

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