Leadership Levity and the Power of Baked Alaska: Simple ways to lead people and build business

What can Baked Alaska teach us about leading people? And how can pizza help to build a business? You are about to find out in Leadership Levity and the Power of Baked Alaska.After a successful thirty-year career selling some of the worlds best-known brands into the tough and sometimes uncompromising UK market author Steve Smith skilfully distils simple lessons learnt around everyday products and scenarios we take for granted-like changing nappies!Steve graduated in Business Studies at the University of Sheffield and joined the sales department at Procter & Gamble during the early 1990s. In this book he provides a unique refreshingly candid assessment of this journey from Procter & Gamble to Kelloggs and onto a sales director role with AG Barr selling Scotlands other national drink IRN-BRU.Steves down-to-earth narrative combines established and familiar management theory with contemporary leadership thinking and a few ideas of his own. As he analyses business scenarios and shares fascinating stories and insight on household products witnessed first-hand youll find yourself scratching your head in disbelief or laughing out loud.The author is just as willing to highlight his own shortcomings and admit where he went wrong as he is to call out the slip-ups of others. This makes Leadership Levity and the Power of Baked Alaska a business book thats direct honest irreverent and packed to the brim with snap crackle and pop!