About More Than Good Enough: Insights Into Leadership:

This book is for anyone who has struggled with feeling not ‘good enough.’ That inner voice that raises self-doubt, that Timothy Galwey calls ‘interference.’ Graham’s passion lies in encouraging leadership in those who may not believe that they can make a difference in the world.

This book describes Graham’s personal journey and links it with his growing understanding of leadership insights. He has worked with internationally-renowned organisations over four decades as well in Cranfield School of Management as their Director of MBA Programmes and Senior Lecturer in Operations Management, Leadership and Change.

Alongside his management career, starting with leading a manufacturing unit in his mid-twenties, Graham also describes his experiences in Christian leadership, including starting a new church in Rugby. There is a theme running through his life which is the desire to make a difference for organisations and individuals.

Graham has used many management frameworks to gain insights into the operational problems that organisations face. As the author of three books in the field of operations management, he is the creator of several of these frameworks. So you’ll experience a review of the best of the leadership literature of the last thirty years – material that works in the real world. He has also, in lecturing in Cranfield, first-hand experience of many of the leaders of industry today. And has counselled them in their own struggles with leadership and change.

In this book you’ll also discover the journey that manufacturing companies made from pure manufacturing to uncovering the services goldmine beneath their feet. You’ll discover the leadership insights that are most relevant and the change leadership approaches that yield results.

And at each stage in his journey, Graham notes the insights from his successes – and his failures.

The Human Touch

More than anything, this is a book about people and relationships. No change initiative is successful without a genuine regard for people. No leader is credible without inspiring his followers. This book gives you both a short-cut to the valuable insights of management thinkers over the last thirty years – but also how it feels to try to implement them.

Graham is candid in charting his journey from young manufacturing apprentice to management consultant and coach in demand internationally.

What you will discover in this book:
• Why culture eats strategy for breakfast – and what to do about it
•The importance of understanding and operating from our key values
• How listening effectively can enhance your persuasion
• What not to do in an assessment centre – if you’re seeking to impress
• How to better understand yourself – and work more effectively with others
• How to understand the often illogical behaviour seen in groups
• Common problems in leading change – and how to overcome them
• Leadership: what a leader is and is not
• Improving your communication through understanding others
• And much, much more …

In all, this is a personal and reflective look at the challenges of managing organisations of all types. And it indicates both the strengths and the limits of leadership and change models. It’s essential reading for the leader who seeks to make organisational change stick.

Many people do not believe that they can provide leadership and abdicate to others who may not be as competent. Our world needs you to step forward, giving input and insight to enable better decision making.

Crucially this book provides encouragement for you to build your own self-belief in order to provide the leadership that people around you need from you.

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