Product Description

Gerry Robinson is one of the UK’s most exceptional businessmen, well known for taking tough decisions and seeing them through to make his companies thrive. Here, in a clear, concise and enabling guide he outlines essential leadership and management skills, and draws on case studies from the BBC TV series I’ll Show Them Who’s Boss to show how challenges can arise and be overcome. Concluding with a chapter busting top management myths, Gerry enables readers to understand, practise and implement key skills within their own careers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #286723 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Amazon.co.uk
Gerry Robinson is one of the UK’s most powerful businessmen and presenter of the TV series I’ll Show Them Who’s Boss. His tie-in book draws on case studies from the two TV series which highlight six key management issues: leadership, formulating a strategy for the future, relations with your staff, implementing redundancies, focusing on the important issues, and communication. For those interested in the techniques and skills required to run a successful business, Robinson is the man to read. Why this book rather than others? What can Robinson provide that other management books or business gurus cannot? Perhaps the answer is suggested by the fact that his book is extremely interesting even to those who have no real interest in business and no ambition to begin their own. Robinson has hated every book on business and management he has ever read and is convinced that the practical skills required to run a business are relatively simple. But this does not mean that everyone can run a successful business. Robinson’s gift is not that he understands and clearly relates what the requisite skills are, but that he is a subtle psychologist who only cares about what’s necessary to make the business work. Much of the interest in the book and the TV shows is generated by the fact that the focus is upon family-run firms. Petty jealousies, rivalries and pecking-orders all add interest for the reader and provide a foil for Robinson’s sharp eye for the necessities of successful business building. Finding out who has and who has not got the requisite qualities of leadership in this context—where people’s pride, ambitions, and ultimately, livelihoods are on the line—makes for fascinating reading and for wonderful instruction on the do’s and don’ts. Robinson’s prose style is simple and to the point and one cannot help thinking that the man is every bit as good as he thinks he is. --Larry Brown

Review

‘…..a masterclass in how to be a boss’. Times Educational Supplement

From the Back Cover

Gerry Robinson is one of the UK’s most exceptional businessmen, well known for taking tough decisions and seeing them through to make his companies thrive. Here, in a clear, concise and enabling guide he outlines essential leadership and management skills, and draws on case studies from the BBC TV series I’ll Show Them Who’s Boss to show how challenges can arise and be overcome. Concluding with a chapter busting top management myths, Gerry enables readers to understand, practise and implement key skills within their own careers.

Customer Reviews

Dull book
I respect this man for his achievements, but his book was dull. Too much depth about specific businesses, without really giving any useful tips for entrepreneurs. Didn't bother finishing the book.

OK.
Some quite interesting stuff, but seems to be aimed at chief execs really, not minions like me who answer their own phone and read their own emails!
Didn't finish reading it.