Articles

Below are a series of articles which have appeared in the Director Magazine. They are personal and give an alternative view on leadership. Hopefully they entertain and inform. If they entertain or inform they will have succeeded. We hope you enjoy them.

If you find the first chapter of How To Lead useful, Amazon stocks the book at their normal competitive prices. Go to:

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Headline reviews from Owen's previous book, Management Stripped Bare (Kogan Page) include:

Prof Philip Kotler, Kellogg: "A brave and entertaining assault on the sacred cows of management. Be prepared to lose your business innocence."

Global Investor: "Punchy, edgy and refreshingly honest"

The Times: "controversial...more readable than most management textbooks."

Daily Express "witty and punchy"

Rolf Dobelli, Get AbstractAG "If painful truth is at the heart of all humor then this unbitter, honest book will leave you snickering in your cubicle or corner suite. We highly recommend taking a break and learning the lessons business school skipped."

American Management Association: "Boldly explores the naked truth about every day challenges; brilliantly manages to supply real world managers with practical guidance and proven solutions"

TrainingZone: "He takes the reader through the very material that they not only don't teach you at business school, but they can't teach you - common sense borne out of experience"

The Success Centre (Australia) "Jo Owen serves up the juiciest burgers in town. And while it's amazing that someone with tongue so firmly planted in cheek can speak so clearly, more impressive is the wealth of real solutions you'll be able to apply to your own work environment."

Management Stripped Bare is also available from Amazon at http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/glance/-/books/0749436972/202-4091508-2827046

1 Mar 2005    How to Lead: chapter one
 
28 Feb 2005    Never a victim
 
28 Feb 2005    Too clever by half
 
28 Feb 2005    Where you sit is where you stand
 
28 Feb 2005    Mind the gaps
 
28 Feb 2005    The vision thing
 
28 Feb 2005    Truth and Trust
 
28 Feb 2005    The Values Game
 
28 Feb 2005    Failure and success
 
28 Feb 2005    Careers versus careering
 
28 Feb 2005    The cult of inspiration
 
28 Feb 2005    The leader's monkeys
 
28 Feb 2005    Mind your language
 
28 Feb 2005    Computers, pruning shears and pens
 
28 Feb 2005    Picasso and the MBA
 
28 Feb 2005    Managerialism