Jo Owen has worked with over 100 organisations around the world in most major industries and has written 15 books on leadership and management including the best-selling How to Lead, How to Manage and Tribal Business School. He is the founder of eight charities which have a collective turnover of £100 million and was awarded the OBE by the Queen for starting Teach First which is now the largest graduate recruiter in the UK. He built a business in Japan without speaking Japanese; he created HBOS business banking; was a partner at Accenture and started his career at P&G. Jo also has spent eight years working with tribes across the world to discover how they survive and succeed, and what businesses can learn from them.

• Part 1 Idea: Set your direction
• 1 Take control
• 2 Why your idea matters
• 3 Craft your idea: creating the future perfect
• 4 Ideas when you are leading from the middle
• 5 Communicate your future perfect idea
• 6 Build your idea into a plan
• 7 Sell your idea
• 8 Deal with strategy
• 9 Strategy and the art of unfair competition
• 10 How to evaluate your idea
• Part 2 People: Make your network work
• 11 Find your role
• 12 Attract the right team
• 13 Motivate your team: theory
• 14 Motivate your team: practice
• 15 Motivation and moments of truth
• 16 Delegate well
• 17 Coach your team for performance
• 18 Manage performance
• 19 Deal with difficult people
• 20 Difficult conversations
• 21 Firing people
• Part 3 Action: Make it happen
• 22 Manage change
• 23 Manage projects
• 24 Handle conflicts
• 25 Handle crises
• 26 Negotiate budget and targets
• 27 Control costs
• 28 Make decisions in uncertainty
• 29 Build your machine: the rhythms and routines of success
• Part 4 Skills of success: The tradecraft of leaders
• 30 Use time well
• 31 Present to persuade
• 32 Make meetings work
• 33 Write effectively
• 34 Read for insight
• 35 Work the numbers
• Part 5 Skills of success: The twenty-first-century leader
• 36 Lead professionals
• 37 Manage your boss
• 38 Build influence across your organisation
• 39 Influence decisions
• 40 Listen to influence
• 41 Lead in a global world
• 42 Careering versus careers
• 43 Craft your personal success formula
• 44 Step up, not back: moments of truth
• 45 Act the part
• 46 Be the part
• Conclusion: your leadership journey