Description
Essential reading for anyone wanting to make the best out of their strengths.
SPIKE will assist you in making an honest assessment of your true outstanding strengths (or spikes).
Written by a world-leading coach and speaker, SPIKE is tangible insight on how to unlock the great prize.
BOOK DETAILS
Publisher: LID Publishing
ISBN:978-1-911498-52-0
FORMAT: 198 x 129mm
Bookbinding: Paperback
Number of pages: 304 pp
AUTHOR
René Carayol is one of the world’s leading business gurus specialising in leadership, culture and transformation. He is the best-selling author of the leadership and culture bible, Corporate Voodoo (Wiley).
REVIEWS
René has no limitations at all and Spike is his and all of our manifestos for navigating this troublesome world of ours – you must read it at least twice.
Sir Michael Lockett, World leading communications guru
Positively impatient for a better world without the negative energy of being fixated on our limitations – this is René. This is Spike.
Liz Ellen, Partner at Mishcon de Reyaruns the Sports Practice
Our World is getting tougher, faster and more unforgiving and we will need all the Spikes we can get – ours and others. René makes this both clear and unforgettable.
Allan Leighton, Serial Chairman– one of the UK’s leading business leaders
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