Smart Leadership: The Ultimate Handbook for Great Leaders

by Jo Owen

Wherever they are in their career, this guide will give professionals a comprehensive understanding of the basic building blocks of effective leadership and management.

For all professionals, knowledge of the key elements of high-quality leadership is vital, whether they are existing managers, taking on additional managerial responsibilities, or looking ahead to their career goals. This base of knowledge stretches from the individual - leading yourself - to the group, leading teams and even entire organizations.

In tackling all these key aspects, the book equips individuals to progress in any area of leadership and management, from team-building to strategic planning. It also addresses the unique challenges of remote leadership that have arisen as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is an essential guide for anyone looking to thrive in a new era of modern leadership.

208 pages, Paperback

Published February 28, 2023

About the author

Jo is the first person to be awarded the CMI gold medal three times, for Mindset of Success; How to Manage and Leadership Skills Handbook.

He practices what he preaches as a leader: he has started seven NGOs with a collective turnover above $100million annually. He was a partner at Accenture; he started a bank, was sued for $12 billion and was the best nappy (diaper) salesman in Birmingham.

His research on leadership has taken him to the ends of the earth and resulted in Tribal Business School: what modern business can learn from traditional societies. He has worked with over 100 of the best , and a few of the worst, organisations on our planet and has interviewed everyone from spies to sportspeople as well as leaders around the world to find the essence of leadership.

His latest work is on Global Teams, which is the first book to look at the plumbing of globalisation: how global teams do and do not work.

Reviews

[Annabel Jade · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you have to read some business bullshit (as I have done), then read this business bullshit. It’s not enjoyable, but it is digestible, short, sharp and to the point and while there are some platitudes, it is not littered with them in the way this kind of thing usually is. It’s practical, as opposed to motivational and that’s exactly what you need from a book like this.

[Kevin Dufresne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hi,

I hope all is progressing well.

Smart Leadership: The Ultimate Handbook for Great Leaders by Jo Owen is a self-help type book offering advising for one to deliberate toward being an effective leader. When perusing an Internom, I decide to buy then read the book due to a curiosity: what might the text offer about leadership? The text approaches varying contexts working together in varying capacities, applicable circumstantially and immediately, building toward successful long term progress.

The text approaches contexts of being a leader from multiple perspectives though I want to note the work from home, hybrid working, and in-person perspectives connecting to a portion of the text on setting boundaries to better recover, to better support oneself, especially in connection with an interdependent reality at large. Finding and/or having an/ avenue(s) to progress beyond one's role(s), position(s), and/or title(s) to be more in touch with one's choice life (i.e. one becomes even more capable of affording to focus on an interest from a different part of one's life, to create claymation video games, then begins making claymation video games) may assist one in further well-rounding one's life. The text indicates navigating boundaries is a core component to being an effective leader and how one approaches boundaries may affect how one may be.

The text considers a/ perspective(s) beyond industrialization of human beings, considering human beings completely, recognizing aspects of human spectrums as necessary to acknowledge, especially in connection with being a leader (which the text considers beholden to behavior more so than anything else). Additionally, I find the following texts may assist one in further deliberating concepts of contexts within Smart Leadership: The Ultimate Handbook for Great Leaders by Jo Owen: Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant, Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition): Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Dr. Ed Catmull, PhD, with Amy Wallace, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, Beyond the 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch, Flip Thinking: The Life-Changing Art of Turning Problems into Opportunities  by Berthold Gunster, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman, Working with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey, How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie, A Passion for Excellence by Tom Peters and Nancy Austin, Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, The Personal MBA (10th Anniversary Edition) by Josh Kaufman, Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton, Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away by Annie Duke, The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch, Mastery by Robert Greene, and The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder.

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