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Good Leaders, Turbulent Times

This book is for you, as you do your best to be a ‘good leader’. As you face and find your way through your leadership challengers, as do the characters in the book, you play your part in tipping the balance towards creating a decent, civil and sustainable society for all.

This book, a unique and rich mix of imaginative true-to-life storytelling and sage, enthusiastic and practical advice, is for those turbulent times when everything seems to be falling apart around you, or you fear could be heading that way.

Over the eight years of witing the book, I created stories and characters drawn from experience of coaching many hundreds of charity and other leaders. It is true-to-life fiction, so you may well recognise yourself and your current situation as the fictionalised characters’ stories unfold.

I’ve done my best to tell the stories of leaders who drift into crisis, struggle deep in wild waters, digest their experiences and move on to find new ways of living and working. The wise words which they discover along the way will be as valuable for you as for them.

Buy the book from Practical Inspiration Publishing, UK bookshops, worldwide, Hive and lots of other places too. (If you desperately need this book to enhance your work in civil society, but just can’t afford to buy it, by all means contact me).

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Best seller

On publication day, Monday 23rd September, Good Leaders in Turbulent Times: How to Navigate Wild Waters at Work became a kindle Best Seller: Three UK categories (# 1 in Philanthropy and Charity + #1 Nonprofit Organisations & Charites + #2 in Business Management and Leadership – this latter being after Stephen Covey’s classic 7 Habits... at # 1); Two US categories (#1 in ‘Philanthropy and Charity’ + #2 Nonprofit Organisations & Charities)

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