Leadership Lessons is a book that is all about how to improve organizational performance. According to the Oxford Dictionary, an essay is “a short piece of non-fiction about a particular topic”. The essays in this book are an accumulation of various projects that I have been involved in for more than a dozen years. The term “projects” spans quite a range of subject matter and purposes for their existence. The reality is that the central focus of all these essays is improving the ability to understand the dynamics at play that are impacting their organizations. The purpose is to help organizations and the people within them to be able to realize their individual and collective potential.

Often business-type books require that a listener slog all the way through until a light bulb might possibly go on. By writing this book as a series of short essays, with some luck, listeners will be able to listen in almost ‘’bite-size’’ increments, with each essay standing on its own. This makes Leadership Lessons perfect for travel or breaks between meetings.

The essays contained in the subsequent minutes are played more or less chronologically in the order that they were written in, with many of the essays being titled in the form of a question. The reason for the title being in the form of a question is that whilst most any manager in an organization will be (or should be) looking for answers, it should be clear that if you don’t learn to ask better questions, you will never get the answers you really need.