The I of Leadership: Strategies for Seeing, Being and Doing

I am usually a sceptic about leadership manuals but this is the exception, original and highly readable. Sir Ian Blair, Baron Blair of Boughton, Former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Leadership is one of the most popular topics in business, and yet few books succeed in laying bare the inner resources successful leaders rely on. Nigel Nicholsons highly readable book glimpses the lives and choices of  leaders in all walks of life the world over and shows vividly how the capacity of leaders to see what others do not see frames their actions and allows them to transform, build, destroy, or stabilize.   Sixteen chapters present different sets of stories and challenges and illustrate how different leaders in all walks of life, have responded to critical turning points. The chapters are peppered with stories and examples from the lives of leaders, such as: Steve Jobs , Tony Blair, Benazir Bhutto, Malcolm X, Barack Obama, Warren Buffet , Mahatma Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher,  Abraham Lincoln, Ernest Shackleton and Henry Ford, amongst others This book resonates with insights and searching questions on the nature of human leadership. It will be an invaluable guide to managers, consultants and people in all walks of life.