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How to Be a Good Leader When You've Never had One
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How to Be a Good Leader When You've Never had One

by Mick Hunt
September 2025
Beginner to intermediate
208 pages
3h 37m
English
Wiley

Overview

A powerful leadership instruction manual designed to help you bring out the best in your team members

In How to Be a Good Leader When You've Never had One: The Blueprint for Modern Leadership, entrepreneur, podcaster, and leader, Mick Hunt, delivers a deeply honest story about leadership that offers hands-on insights and actionable frameworks you can apply at your organization today. The author provides strategies that are tailor-made for modern leaders who are engaging with a diverse workforce.

After a powerful foreword by Les Brown, How to Be a Good Leader When You've Never had One marries proven leadership strategies forged in the real world with a fresh perspective on work that is inspiring and practical.

Inside the book:

  • A toolkit for modern leadership that leverages transparency, resilience, influence, listening, and vision
  • Powerful case studies of real-life leaders – including soldiers, corporate executives, and healthcare leaders – who have found ways to overcome common leadership strategies and achieved extraordinary outcomes
  • Strategies for addressing obstacles unique to leading a contemporary workforce

An exciting and inspiring new take on how to lead in the modern era, How to Be a Good Leader When You've Never had One is an essential resource for managers, executives, and other business leaders seeking an authentic, authoritative, and actionable playbook for the kind of leadership the world needs today.

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781394357956