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The 60 Second Leader does the research and the filtering for you. It distils thirty essential elements of leadership into 60 second bites, interlaced with thirty tales to help bring the learning to life. You're too busy to read everything you need to read on leadership. So don't. Let The 60 Second Leader be your short-cut guide. About The Author Phil Dourado is a leadership consultant, speaker, author and journalist. His specialist area is helping large companies develop a global community of leaders who learn from each other online. He has written for a number of national newspapers and magazines, including the telegraph, the Independent, GQ, The Observers and The Business. He edited two business-to-business journals before spending five years researching and defining great leadership practice as a director of the Inspired Leaders Network. This, his second book on leadership, grew out of research into distilling the essence of leadership for the 60 Second Leader online development system. It follows the same principle of bite-size nuggets that can be digested quickly by busy leaders and put into action immediately to improve their leadership performance. Phil has an MA in history from Cambridge University and splits h is time between consulting, researching, writing, parenting and caring for his wife, who has Huntington's disease. Table of Contents Introduction: The 60-Second PhD in Leadership Personal Leadership Failure Intuition Decisions Connection Luck Optimism Leading The Organization Strategy Competition Action Execution Management Change Leading People Questions Attention Stories Motivation The 60-Second Leader Engagement Targets Distributed Leadership Innovation Culture Leading from the middle Customers Frontline leadership (1) Frontline leadership (2) Great Leadership Ego Humility Fear Love Presence Legacy Where next? Index