Modern leadership is about shaping the social process of engagement, strategizing and decision-making so that workers can create immeasurable value. This book is about what executives can do to transform the thinking of those around them. It will give you exemplary decision-making, quicker organizational change and focussed leadership.

The success of the modern day leader depends in no small part on their ability to bring clarity and purpose to a world that is otherwise swamped in a fog of information, complexity and change. Somewhere along the way between the innocence of the early twentieth century and the mayhem of the twenty first century things became very complicated. The internet made customers much more intelligent. The new economies shifted the global power balance. The apparent separation of peoples and countries disappeared and climate change, terrorism and the technology explosion told a different story. Leaders...