Leadership: Plain and Simple (Financial Times Series)

Leadership isnt complicated keep it simple and make it count. This new edition of Steve Radcliffes uniquely powerful, successful and practical framework will show you how to develop faster as a more confident and capable leader.

This compact, instantly-applicable guide to developing leadership skills contains practical insights, straightforward actions and plain guidelines to accelerate your growth as a leader.

The framework is derived from expert coach Steve Radcliffes work with real leaders in real leadership situations. It shows you how to:

- Be guided by the Future you want and stay focused on your vision

- Engage others in productive and stimulating working relationships that make things happen.

- Deliver the results you need to really move your business forward.

Steve Radcliffe is one of Europe?s most successful leadership coaches and the head of Steve Radcliffe Associates. Best known for his Future ? Engage ? Deliverleadership model, over the last 20 years he has worked with hundreds of chief executives, directors and their teams, in organisations as diverse as Unilever, First Direct, the National College of School Leadership and the UK?s Civil Service, where he contributes to the prestigious High Potential Development Scheme.

Steve grew up in Wigan, and studied at Oxford University. From there, he joined Procter and Gamble, later moving to the US to become the CEO of a division of the multinational business Tambrands. In 1991, he left to pursue a career as a leadership coach. High profile clients have included Sir Gus O?Donnell, Cabinet Secretary and head of the Civil Service; former Unilever chairman and now chairman of Reuters, Niall Fitzgerald; and Richard Baker, former CEO of Alliance Boots.

Steve now lives in Hampshire, where his main leadership challenge outside of work is learning to be the dad of three teenagers! His hobbies of tennis, landscape photography and supporting Wigan Athletic help keep him fit and sane.