Description

There are a zillion books on leadership and people management, which all make a variety of claims about their relevance and significance, so why bother taking a look at this one? Well, here are a few reasons why you may want to want to spend a few minutes with Maximum Performance (MP):

It’s free*.

MP is written by someone who has collaborated in research, consulting and leadership development projects with more than 50 companies in the UK, Australia, Singapore and the UAE, and has 20 years' experience educating Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Executive MBA (EMBA) students.

The book’s contents have been extensively ‘road-tested’ in the UK, Singapore, Australia and the UAE,with more than 1700 MBA and EMBA students. They have also been tried and tested in dozens of leadership and management development courses, in several countries, over the last two decades. It is designed for people on MBA/EMBA programs and also those who may want to develop their leadership and people management skills, but are unable to take valuable time off work to attend expensive - and often ineffective - ‘management training’ courses.

MP synthesises a variety of perspectives on leadership and people management - including those of leaders (past and present), business commentators and journalists, management consultants, business research and think-tanks, and academics - with a fifth dimension: what we already know about effective leadership and people management throughout the ages, and yet seem to have to ‘reinvent’ with each new generation.

The book also integrates materials from more than 1000 books, professional and practitioner journals, newspaper articles and websites. What appears in MP represents a distillation of the best conceptual and practical ideas about leadership and people management - condensed into a form that busy managers and professionals can assimilate and make immediate use of at work, in large, medium-sized or small organisations, and in the public or private sector. It is also updated at regular intervals, so does not 'date' in the way that other leadership and management books do

Last, MP explicitly takes into account the fast-changing contexts that most business leaders and managers now work in. The next two decades will be characterised by even greater change and uncertainty, as global economic forces, new technologies, the information revolution and environmental challenges drive the fastest period of change in human history and the world of business.

This book is designed for leaders and managers working in this demanding, complex, stressful, uncertain and fast-moving world. I hope you will find it challenging, stimulating and rewarding.

Nick Forster, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

(* This book has been published only for personal use. If you are a representative of an educational, training, leadership/ management development or consulting organisation and intend to use the materials in this book for commercial purposes, please contact the author for details of charges that will apply for such usage)