Jo Owen

This is the first entertaining yet extremely practical book to show the career advantage of leadership skills - and how to develop yours, wherever you are in an organisation.

What You Actually Need to Do to Manage, Lead and Succeed

How to Lead

How to lead

the art of making things happen

How to manage

Coaching Yourself and Your Team to Success

How to Coach

Essere influenti. L'arte di rendere le cose possibili

A clear and practical review of the 50 most common thinking challenges everyone faces from day to day, with a full guide to the most accessible and practical solutions.

How to live, think and work even better

Smart Thinking

People who are good at influencing and persuading know how to get things done. They turn crises into opportunities and opponents into allies, and they achieve much more by doing less. And the good news is that anyone can learn these skills. In How to Win at Anything, you’ll discover: • The four unique ways of thinking shared by every effective influencer • How to build strong, productive, and lasting alliances • Over sixty practical and easily applied principles and techniques • The definitive way to win your must-win battles—without fighting It pays to learn influence and persuasion. Learn these core skills to help propel your life and career.

Strategies for Building and Maximizing Your Influence

How to Win at Anything

The mobile MBA

Owen identifies the core skills leaders need to develop. Each skill is placed in context to help readers think about how it should be used. This book reveals how to be a practical leader, and looks at what to do when things go wrong; how to deal with conflict, adversity and difficult people.

50 Key Skills from 1,000 Leaders

The Leadership Skills Handbook

A guide to turning survival in the workplace into successful management, Hard-core Management features 100 case studies of business myths and management realities and offers practical solutions for bridging the gap.

Hard-core Management

This is a book about business as it is - not as it should be. Managers face the same problems the world over - bad meetings, boring presentations, unreasonable expectations, difficult bosses - and somehow they are meant to make sense of it all. But this isn't taught in business school. In Management Stripped Bare Jo Owen draws on his vast experience to present real-life solutions and observations on common management challenges. Each challenge is described, and successful and unsuccessful responses are illustrated with case studies. Punchy, edgy and refreshingly honest, it is entertaining and witty as well as informative. Irreverent and incisive, Management Stripped Bare cuts through the usual management hype and rhetoric to reveal what business is really about. It is not a grand theory of management but a practical guide to survival in the real world.

What They Don't Teach You at Business School

Management Stripped Bare

A guide to the art of selling uses examples from selling in every major industry to show how to succeed in any sales situation and increase personal productivity.

Sell Anything to Anyone

How to Sell

Look around the place where you work. You will always find a few people who stand out from the crowd; people who make things happen, attract followers and create opportunities. After fourteen years of researching leaders around the world, author Jo Owen has found that the best and most successful leaders have something more than skills. They act differently because they think differently. The Mindset of Success will help you unlock your true potential, showing you how to acquire the seven key mindsets that lead to success. The right mindset will enable you to achieve far more than you thought possible, opening up new career possibilities and new potential for your future. From spies to sports, education to entrepreneurship, business to beyond, Jo Owen's original research and interviews will show you how outstanding leaders think and behave differently from the merely good. The way they think is consistent and predictable; we can all learn it. This is the mindset difference, and once you have it, you have an advantage which lasts for a lifetime and works for you time and time again. This book is not about changing who you are, but becoming the best version of who you are, making the most of your existing talent and focusing on your natural strengths. The Mindset of Success provides a clearly structured set of tools to change the way you think, act and perform, pushing you beyond good management to great leadership.

From Good Management to Great Leadership

The Mindset of Success

WINNER: CMI Management Book of the Year 2019 - Aspiring Leaders Category The best leaders are born, not made. The best leaders are always in control. The best leaders are those with the highest IQs. But are they really? The thinking surrounding what makes the greatest leaders is increasingly muddled by stereotypes, snake oil promises and pseudo-science. The best leaders rely on fact, not fads. Myths of Leadership blasts away the fluff and confronts false legends head on. Jo Owen uses the most credible research to analyze each myth, using international business case studies, leadership theory and insightful interviews, to uncover the truth. This is a compelling and practical examination of the most pervasive misconceptions about leadership that will help you elevate your own leadership abilities, better inspire your team and empower your organization by thinking differently. Entertaining but evidence-based, Myths of Leadership throws out the management jargon and skewers over-hyped leadership trends to bring you the best practical tips you need to become a better leader.

Banish the Misconceptions and Become a Great Leader

Myths of Leadership

Great managers do more than manage their teams. They coach their teams to top performance. They help everyone get better at what they do, improving productivity, boosting motivation and sharing knowledge and expertise. How to Coach is the essential book for all managers and leaders. It shows you how you can raise both your own performance and that of your team through well-structured, effective coaching that delivers impressive results. In How to Coach: Coaching Yourself and Your Team to Success you’ll discover how to: Get the best from your team by making them feel valued, motivated and focussed on success Get the best from yourself by always playing to your strengths Solve the day-to-day problems that all managers face Develop successful coaching discussions for yourself and your team Avoid the typical traps of traditional coaching Deal with other people, politics and your peers

"First published in Great Britain in 2010 as How To Influence."

How to Influence and Persuade

In a world still adjusting to the impact of the pandemic, remote and hybrid working is new territory for most people. But many managers can be poorly equipped to deal with it: the more casual ways of managing in a physical office simply don't work with remote teams, and most tasks will be more challenging when conducted at a distance. Aspects of this will be great news for some people: managing remote teams can often raise the bar for leaders and managers, as well as for the teams themselves. But office-based, face-to-face leadership, while certainly effective, is often more informal and ad hoc, and a number of basic management tasks can be much harder to complete remotely: - managing workloads and performance; - resolving problems and miscommunications; - motivation (and the lack of); - professional development and ongoing training; and - identifying, setting and measuring goals and targets. This new title shows how leaders, managers and team members can raise their games to meet the challenges of 21st century leadership and our new age of working.

The Ultimate Handbook for Remote and Hybrid Teams

Smart Work

The ultimate how-to of management. Based on years of management practice and actually watching what good managers do, it cuts through the noise of management theory, to show you how to develop the skills, behaviour and emotions to thrive as a manager. In How to Manage you’ll learn how to: Evaluate your own management potential Assess team members and help them discover how they can improve Identify and build the core skills you need to succeed Recognise the rules of survival and success in your organisation

How to Manage ePub eBook

This book is not about changing who you are, but becoming the best version of yourself. The Mindset of Success provides a clearly structured set of tools to change the way you think, act and perform, pushing you beyond good management to great leadership. After 14 years of researching leaders around the world, Jo Owen has found that the best and most successful leaders have something more powerful than just skill. They act differently because they think differently. This book will help you unlock your true potential, showing you how to acquire the seven key mindsets that lead to success, whilst making the most of your existing talent and focusing on your natural strengths. This is the second edition of the bestselling The Mindset of Success and it has been updated with new cutting-edge research, targeted business advice and guidance on how your mindset must change as you move through your career. From spies to sports, education to entrepreneurship, business to beyond, Jo Owen's original research and interviews will show you how outstanding leaders think and behave differently from the merely good. This is the mindset difference and, once you have it, you have an advantage which lasts for a lifetime and will work for you time and time again. Using this unique book to develop your right mindset will enable you to open up new career possibilities and achieve far more than you could have imagined.

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