Optimal Leadership

<p><strong>After reading this book you will be armed with the tools and questions to succeed but above all with</strong></p><p><strong>the confidence and clear-mindedness to tackle the task. </strong><em>Professor Andrew Scott London Business</em></p><p><em>School</em></p><p></p><p>The high profile of a Chief Executive Officer and the strong results of the best-performing</p><p>businesses give an impression that business leadership constitutes the art of maximising: of short-</p><p>term revenues of pace of change of employee engagement. Serial CEO Wilf Blackburn explains how</p><p>effective organisational leadership involves an optimal blend of apparent opposites: humility and</p><p>confidence delegation and decisiveness reliability and innovative capability. This builds a culture</p><p>that combines high performance and psychological safety.</p><p></p><p>Such findings are not new - yet they are not universally applied. Optimal Leadership includes a</p><p>discussion on why progress on implementing the evidence base for the high-performing workplace</p><p>has been patchy. He addresses the real difficulties a CEO faces and offers practical advice on how to</p><p>implement the principles. In an age in which we have learned that resilience is as important as</p><p>innovation Optimal Leadership is an essential guide.</p><p></p><p><strong>Reading Optimal Leadership is like sitting down and having a conversation on how to become a</strong></p><p><strong>great CEO .... You get decades of experience in a single read.</strong> <em>Dean M Schroeder PhD best-selling</em></p><p><em>author of Ideas are Free</em></p><p></p><p></p>