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Leadership Rules by Jo Owen (view source)
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Owen's latest addition to the management self-help canon is subtitled ''50 Timeless Lessons for Leaders''. Fifty lessons in under 250 pages? You have to know that the genuine newness of the insights might be on the disappointing side of fabulous. That's not to completely write off ''Leadership Rules''. I enjoyed reading it. Given its structure of short sharp snipes which might be aimed at the dip-in-and-out brigade, I can also say that it reads well as a sit-down-and-consider book.
I had a motive, it has to be admitted. I'm in the throes of both my final year professional exams and my firm's second tier leadership course. I need to know this stuff. That doesn't mean I'm a sucker for punishment. Some of my lower-mark exam passes might well be on the basis of a tendency to say something along the lines of ""''I know this is what the syllabus says, but actually, in practice, our experience states, it's rubbish!"" '' I read critically. And critically, Owen's approach has something going for it.
The structure will work well for those who, unlike me, just want to get a quick fix on the bus or on the … well… wherever else you might read these things!