Case of the Missing Cutlery: A Leadership Course for the Rising Star - Hardcover

Allen, Kevin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1629560243 ISBN 13: 9781629560243

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Kevin Allen, author of the Wall Street Journal best-selling The Hidden Agenda: A Proven Way to Win Business and Create a Following, is back, with a fabulously entertaining (and true) tale of a newly minted leader made buoyant during The Case of the Missing Cutlery: A Leadership Course for the Rising Star. As a young manager at an airline catering facility, Kevin had to find out why silverware was disappearing at a rapid clip. The route to solving this mystery of The Case of the Missing Cutlery results in Kevin learning to rise to the occasion, to become a leader who inspires followers and is able to rely on their hard work and support. For those who might find reading about leadership success at the Fortune 50 level inspiring but too far removed from their experience, the author offers up this down-to-earth story of an everyday employee turned rising star. The Case of the Missing Cutlery also provides exercises and further examples to bring the leadership messages home. [This edition contains content previously published as The Buoyant Leader.]

About this title

About the Author

Kevin Allen is founder & chairman of Planet Jockey, which specializes in gamified leadership training, and re:kap, a business transformation company which counts Google, Burberry, Smythson, Swedbank and Verizon among its global clients. He is recognized as one of the world’s most accomplished growth professionals.

He is the best-selling author of The Hidden Agenda: A Proven Way to Business and Create a Following (Bibliomotion, 2012), and also The Case of the Missing Cutlery: A Leadership Course for the Rising Star (Bibliomotion, 2014), which has been featured on BBC Radio’s Four Thought leadership series.

With decades at the top of advertising giants McCann-WorldGroup, the Interpublic Group and Lowe and Partners Worldwide, Kevin worked with such brands as MasterCard developing the globally famous "Priceless" campaign Microsoft, Marriott, Smith Barney, Nestle, L'Oreal, Lufthansa and Johnson & Johnson, and was an early part of Rudy Giuliani's team that prepared the way for the successful Mayoral election and turnaround strategies for the City of New York.

An academy instructor at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and Eurobest Festival, and a visiting lecturer at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and the European Business School at Regents College London, Kevin is a featured speaker at companies like Google, Microsoft and has appeared on BBC.

Review

The Case of the Missing Cutlery is a great read filled with entertaining real life stories and very human leadership lessons. Kevin's Buoyancy course reinforces how individual compassion can ignite communities enabling great leaders and companies to consistently stay on the forefront of change. - Angela Ahrendts, Chief Executive Officer, Burberry
 

Kevin Allen knows what it means to lead - persuasively, effectively, and with heart. In The Case of the Missing Cutlery, he shows you how to do it, too. Read this book and become the leader you're meant to be.
- Dorie Clark, Forbes and Harvard Business Review contributor and author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future (Harvard Business Review Press)  

Kevin is a truly inspirational and challenging leadership trainer whose Buoyancy principles are at the heart of the first-class inspiration he delivers for the next generation of agency account talent. That's why Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity chooses him to run our successful Young Account Executive Academy.
- Phil Thomas, CEO, Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity 

From his heartwarming tale as a newly minted leader to his stories as a high flying ad man, Kevin Allen shows how to truly make practical the power of emotional intelligent leadership.
 The Case of the Missing Cutlery should be in every leader's back pocket!
- Andy Janowski, CEO, Smythson
 

Kevin's charming and absorbing 'Case' and his practical course on Buoyancy is proof beyond a doubt of emotionally intelligent leadership taking centre stage. This is an easy-to-read and highly valuable resource for anyone mobilizing people to greatness.
 - Daryl Fielding, Director Brand Marketing, Vodafone UK
  

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1629560243
• ISBN 13: 9781629560243
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 73