Successful management and leadership has never been a greater challenge. Time is stretched, your people are highly motivated but can be highly demanding, and business is competitive. Whether you are a first-time manager or an experienced leader, straightforward, practical advice on best practice can be hard to find.

John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Effective Leadership and Management will help you find the answers and inspiration you need. The book provides accessible advice from one of the world's best-known and most sought after authorities on leadership and management - advice you can put into practice immediately

JOHN ADAIR has for many years been a major influence in management and leadership development in the business, government, academic and military sectors. He has lectured at Sandhurst and became the world's first professor in Leadership Studies at the University of Surrey. He has written extensively on leadership, management and history and acts as a consultant to a wide variety of organisations throughout the world.