Leadership

by Michael Heath

The leadership secrets that experts and top professionals use.

Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Leadership.
Includes how to:
• Understand and develop your leadership style
• Identify strategic goals for your department
• Motivate and manage teams of all sizes
• Build a culture of results and responsibility
• Lead the way out of a crisis

Genres: Nonfiction, Entrepreneurship

130 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2010

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

About the Author

Google my name and you will see that it was as a business author that I had initially established my writing reputation, with invitations from the likes of HarperCollins and the Dragons’ Den production team who were keen to employ my knack for making complex business concepts accessible.

But, thankfully, life changed and, now that I was not driven by the same commercial need, I quickly moved on to completing and publishing my first novella, ‘Killing Time in Kenton’.

I love stories. Other people’s stories. Stories that capture those small snapshots of imperfect living. Like so many writers I collect other people’s anecdotes and tales and squirrel them away ready for the wintery landscape of an empty page.

I am convinced that every good conversation hides something precious that’s waiting to be mined. And it can happen in the most ordinary of circumstances: waiting for a plane; meeting another dog walker; chatting to someone in a supermarket queue. Young, old or some vague point in between, no person’s life is private when a writer is listening.


Behind the Books

Having devoured the great Victorian novelists in my youth, I have always wanted to fashion a series of books with a strong sense of place and time. It was only when I moved to East Anglia that I found the geographical ‘voice’ that I was searching for and which is so apparent in the first of my ‘Winifred Smy Mysteries’, Killing Time in Kenton. The novella’s events all unfold against the backdrop of a small East Suffolk hamlet in the uncertain years that immediately precede the First World War.

With a keen sense of the need for historical accuracy gained through extensive research, I incorporate real locations and local stories; even the surnames in my fiction are those that have emerged from my scouring of local churchyards and parish records, usually in the company of my very badly-behaved Lhasa Apso dog, Coco.

What about outside of writing? Well, I am a keen pianist, guitarist, and composer, regularly partnering with other musicians online under the band name ‘The One Beneath’.

I also support Coventry City Football Club am keen to point out in my defense that it was because I was born there. #PUSB

Reviews

[Stephen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the second book I've read from the Collins Business Secrets series and I'm a big fan. They are short but dense books. This one had a ton of great material and I actually took a while reading it because I was trying to retain as much information as I could. I might even read this again.

Leadership has a lot of different facets. This book does a good job of presenting a lot of information on leadership and has a good blend of conceptual and practical material. It's not going to make you into an instant best leader but it will give you a great framework to work with and is almost guaranteed to give you some good perspective. At the end of the book, you will be a more educated leader.

It feels like the Collins Business Secrets books are all well researched. It felt like this book was including information from some of the best leaders of our times and concepts from some of the best books on leadership. They use good resources and pull knowledge from good sources. I think it shows that the authors are well educated and knowledgeable about the areas they are writing on.

I will continue to read the Collins Business Secrets series. I really like them. Great, short, educational books on business topics. Highly recommend.

[Sean · Rating 4 out of 5]

I remember doing a module on Leadership at Bible College. The Lecturer would often lament that few colleges had such a module. He believed leadership was the key quality we needed to develop to be effective Ministers. This is which summarises the key ideas of many books on leadership. Heath speaks of character, responsibilities, strategy, execution, change, influence and the integral role of the team. Most leaders tend to assume their positions through nature rather than nurture. They have an instinct to behave in such a way that makes them out from their fellows. But nature alone is not enough. You can only go so far on your instinct and experience. Learning from others has a vital role to play. Not nly does it reinforce prior convictions, it exposes weakness and also offers new ways of leading which can both create new opportunites and avoid more mistakes. This book is a good, concise reference to they key elements of leadership. A worthwhile investment,

[Arvind Sherpa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This books really help me to understand about various characteristics of leadership, the leadership styles and various secrets of leadership that helps the individual to be a better leader and team member of the organisation.

[Manish · Rating 4 out of 5]

nice pointers for leadership.

[Marwah Hassounah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read it in Arabic :)
قرأت الكتاب بالعربي، ترجمة مكتبة جرير
الأسلوب الواضح والبسيط والشامل في المحتوى وطريقة عرضه لسلسلة الأسرار هو ما يجذبني لتناول كتاب بعد كتاب منها.

[Ahmed Saeed · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very nice book for refreshing your leadership skills memory and recharging your batteries.

[Tahir Hussain · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short, Precise, Informative.

[Salma Al Rayes · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short and concise more like self-help books style