Not many of us will have sufficient spirit of inquiry to work out how many bosses we’ve reported to in our careers. But Nigel Rowe has, and as his debut book ‘Positive People Leadership’ (The Book Guild, £9.99, ISBN 9781914471704) posits, there’s a lot to be learned from such data.
During his three-decade (and counting) career, that has seen him progress from graduate software engineer to board director, Rowe has ‘worked for about thirty different bosses’, who in turn have served in the management food chain under their bosses, and so on. With this much leadership expertise influencing the way things are done, there must be high quality findings to be extrapolated, suggests Rowe. With ‘Positive People Leadership’ we have exactly that.
Not only has Rowe learned from every manager he’s reported to, “but as a leader myself, I have learned from every leader I have worked for or interacted with, through both positive and negative experiences.” These lessons...