The 99 Essential Business Questions: To take you beyond the obvious management actions

Gia Campari, David Glassman, Michael Jeans, Patrick McHugh, David Peregrine-Jones, David Shannon and Benjamin Taylor bring combined experience from across a wide range of business sectors to solve your professional problems! The 99 Essential Business Questions will provide you with the answers you're looking for - but it only contains questions and scenarios, ideas and strategies. This is not a straightforward question and answer book. The right questions, and your answers, provide you with the insight to take the right decisions and act in a way that goes beyond the blatantly obvious.

The book came about as a result of conversations at the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants, a livery company of the City of London. The seven authors are seasoned management consultants with collective experience of more than 200 years of professional practice. The book grew from their desire to capture their experiences of insightful questioning and package it in a way that is accessible and informative, helpful and practical for practising managers today.

Leadership has a greater influence on the overall well-being of an organisation - financial, ethical, place to work - than any other element, and this has become the focus of Gia's work. Gia's experience as a research chemist at the ETH in Zurich, the University of London and in industry, has left a permanent desire for innovation - the constant search for the unexpected, simple solution to organisational issues. Following an MBA at London Business School, Gia specialised in marketing and business strategy with the silicone valley-based SRI. A Swedish-based boutique consultancy introduced Gia to facilitation, which allowed her to lead culture/performance improvement/change projects for major organisations in Europe and the USA. Gia's interest in creativity led her to introduce creativity to the change process. Gia founded Signals of Change to help individuals and teams grow through leadership and innovation. Gia has lectured in creativity and leadership at universities in Italy and has served on the board of a software multinational and a manufacturing SME.