Liquid Leadership Inspirational lessons from the world's great leaders

by Hughes, Damian

• ISBN13: 9781906465438
• ISBN10: 1906465436
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-08
• Publisher: Capstone

Summary

A practical, jargon-free and easily accessible book on making a difference as a leader, Damian Hughes' Liquid Leadership draws on a diverse list of leaders in everyday life (Kim England, National Sales Training Manager at Unilever), to showbiz celebrities (John Lennon, Walt Disney), to renowned historical leaders (Shackleton, Eisenhower, Steve Jobs).There are no stuffy theories here. Instead, the book jumps energetically between film references from the Wizard of Oz, Alfie and Superman to the leadership styles of World-Cup winning coaches Alf Ramsay and Clive Woodward. Speckled throughout are examples of 'Liquid Leaders', from people you know - like James Timpson, head of the UK-wide group of key-cutting and shoe repair outlets - to people we don't know, including Fergus Findlay of Barnardo's in Ireland. This book offers you a joyous diversion that pushes home important theory effortlessly. It ends with practical exercises designed to galvanise the reader into identifying how they need to change, as well as a very useful annotated bibliography.Both of Damian's books have been credited with helping people build their own houses, fight cancer and run marathons, so come on and be a fellow Liquid Leader!

Author Biography

Damian Hughes is founder of the LiquidThinker company which takes the methods used by great achievers and shows, in easy steps, how you can adopt them into your own life and business in order to achieve your dreams and ambitions.

LiquidThinker Ltd, helps a wide range of individuals, teams and industries to achieve similar employee engagement and success. Damian also works as one of the coaches for GB Rugby League team. In his spare time, he runs a Manchester inner-city youth club, Collyhurst and Moston, which has helped reduce crime and help many kids find a purpose in their lives from stopping crime to winning Olympic medals.
He has also been nominated for the 2007 William Hill Sports book of the year award for his biography of boxing great, Sugar Ray Robinson. His innovative and exciting approach to inspiring others to achieve has been praised by Sir Richard Branson, Muhammad Ali, Jonny Wilkinson and Sir Alex Ferguson.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Foreword by Sir Alex Ferguson

Preface by Bill Sweetenham

Why Read This Book?

1 Well of Courage

21 Liquid Assets

29 Liquid Crystal Display

51 Sailing by the North Star

63 Drip Effect

69 Water Gauge

83 Liquid Sunshine

93 Make a Splash!

103 Take Horses to Water

117 Deep Dive

123 Fluidity

143 Set Sail!

Personal Postscript

Exercises

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