Last night I attended the CMI Management Book of the Year for 2012 held in association with the British Library.
This competition aims to celebrate the best of management books published or distributed in the UK, from the most inspiring to the most useful.
This year Cass Business School joined as sponsor for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship category.
I was pleased to see that Celia Gates’ book From Brainwave to Business, How to turn your brilliant idea into a successful start-up, was one of the short-listed titles.
The overall winner on the night was The Cult of the Leader, A Manifesto for More Authentic Business by Christopher Bones.
This is a very timely topic with the media attention firmly on the causes of our economic plight, and railing against excessive executive pay.
The book is a critical look at the way business leadership has gone so badly wrong, and what can be done to fix it. Christopher explained that this was his first book for 15 years, so was particularly pleased to have won the award.
The Cult of the Leader, A Manifesto for More Authentic Business
Modern business is obsessed with leaders. We talk about leadership all the time, but its real meaning is becoming more and more obscure. Recent corporate crises have shown that all too often, our leaders are missing in action when we need them most.
In this groundbreaking and provocative new book, Chris Bones shows how we need to:
Restore trust and confidence
Be more realistic about what leaders can and can’t do
Redefine talent
Revalue experience
Reconsider remuneration