How to Lead Smart People: Leadership for Professionals

Using over 40 simple lessons, How to Lead Smart People shows you how to manage a team of equals with intelligence and diplomacy.

Traditional skills are re-evaluated for the leader of a smart team. Split into three sections: leading yourself, leading your team and leading your organisation, the book offers advice for 360-degree management.

How to Lead Smart People teaches core skills such as decision-making and delegating but also soft skills such as delivering good and bad news to team members and how to realise longer-term aims such as building trust and growing your team. The authors also offer advice on how to look after yourself as a team leader, how to build resilience in tough situations and how to develop creativity and extend your skill base so that you are constantly learning.

Authors: Arun Singh, Mike Mister