Product Description

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #274190 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 194 pages

Review
"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)

Review
"Whether you are a ′would–be′ leader or a ′should–be′ leader, this great little book is for you" (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)

From the Back Cover
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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Customer Reviews

'Short' does not mean 'light' in this case
I love the clever way in which Phil Dourado has put this book together. Many management 'short' books fall into the easy trap of being 'dumbed down'. Phil's book is BOTH concise AND intelligent, inspiring, inductive and so on. In other words, he has 'dumbed up' the artform - not an easy thing to do. He does this using an 'all round learning' approach which brings the gurus into intimate contact with practical advice, exemplars of great leaders and pithy bits of wisdom, gathered from an extremly wide research base.

He even dares to start a book on leadership with a chapter on failure, something I know plenty about, having attempted to fly aging punk rocker John Otway round the world on a tour that would rival the cult movie 'This is Spinal Tap'.

Yes, you can spend 60 seconds reading this well organised book, but you can also spend many hours going deeper or reflecting on the insightful thoughts which Phil Dourado has brought together here. Rather than an 'I did it my way' book on Leadership, Phil Dourado offers you the chance to consider how to make the best of your own leadership style rather than trying to copy someone else's design aka Karaoke Leadership.

This book ROCKS, and I should know about that!

Peter Cook
MD Human Dynamics
Author: Sex, Leadership and Rock'n'Roll - Leadership Lessons from the Academy of Rock

Brilliant common sense - an incredibly readable
I've just finished my dipping in and out method of reading this fabulous little book. Yes you can read it cover to cover but there is no need. Browse the conetnts and look up an area that interests you. I loved Phils easy and fluid style ( and some times witty asides ). It's a very well researched book and Phil Dourado certainly gets about, meets lots of 'gurus' and keeps great notes. I also particularly liked the stories. They bring all the subjects to life and are a great metaphor for leadership in themselves. I thought it was thought provoking, confirming and stimulating. Many leadership writers should take a leaf out of this style and way of communicating. Brilliant.

Exceptional and straightforward
Why has a book like this never been written before? The writing is clear and comprehensive. A very useful book which can assist everybody at all levels of management in all sizes of organization, business or otherwise.

There are two characteristics I would highlight;

(1) It is good sense in an easily accessible format - managers can use the straightforward manner in which it is written to get across their ideas in an effective and inoffensive way;


(2) It is useful for both managers and for people being managed - if somebody has a manager, they will often not understand why the manager is doing what they are doing, but after seeing some of the things mentioned in this book, they will better understand what management is about, and be in a better position to respond, and even implement their own decisions when necessary.

I am not normally gushing about books, but this one is exceptional in its ability to provide straightforward guidelines in an easy to understand way, showing methods that work.