Kevin Gaskell - Inspired Leadership: How You Can Achieve Extraordinary Results in Business

In Inspired Leadership, Gaskell passes along fantastic insights from his personal experience of leading some of the world's great brands, building new companies and revitalising stalled businesses. His knowledgeoften gained the hard wayhelps leaders appreciate that building an extraordinary team with ordinary people is simple, but not easy. Inspired leaders recognise their own strengths and weaknesses, provide continuous coaching and pay attention to their team. Inspiring leaders encourage teams to share beliefs and strive for common goals and in doing so they create something special and successful and fun. Read this book and use the process to build your own success.

Marshall Goldsmith, World's #1 Leadership Thinker

In any performance situation leadership is what makes the greatest difference. Not only from the person designated as leader but when displayed by everyone in the team. Inspired Leaders are those special leaders able to ensure that every team member is engaged and able to fully contribute their ideas and energy. Inspired Leadershipoffers any leader, at any level, an indispensable guide to ensuring their team perform at the top of their game every day.

Sir Clive Woodward OBE, England Rugby World Cup Winning Coach, Team GB Director

The lessons in this book are applicable to any commercial sector, or indeed any team. Working with Kevin we have applied his structured approach to the music and entertainment industry. We have taken his advice, tools and process and created a hugely successful business of inspired musicians performing extraordinary music for audiences all over the world.

Chris White, Dire Straits, The Dire Straits Experience

Teamwork is critical to success at the highest level. Team members need leaders who see beyond the obvious and generate ideas with wider reaching impact. Being part of implementing those ideas is exciting. This is possible when Inspired Leadership is demonstrated at all levels in the team. This book shows how to achieve this level of inspiration and success in the real world.

Lewis Moody MBE, England Captain, British and Irish Lions

This edition first published 2017

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This book is written with grateful thanks to everyone with whom I have shared my business journey and adventures.