Emmanuel Gobillot

The Connected Leader: Creating agile organisations for people and performance Emmanuel Gobillot 2nd updated edition

'This book deserves a place in every manager's bookshelf'. Training Journal 'Occasionally a management book is published which triggers a paradigm shift in business philosophy. The Connected Leader is such a book.

Emmanuel Gobillot has written the first leadership book for the digital generation'. Claire Mason, CEO, Man Bites Dog 'We are at our best when we feel a part of something meaningful and important. Emmanuel Gobillot goes beyond helping us to envision effective leaders to creating the power of possibility with engaged leaders.

He integrates observations from a huge number of fields and industries to bring a fantastic exploration of the essence of great leadership relationships - being connected and engaged!' Professor Richard Boyatzis, co-author of the international best-seller Primal Leadership. 'With radical shifts and leadership becoming a strange paradox of short-term challenges over long-term strategies, Gobillot’s focus on ‘connected leadership’ is timely. The book is exciting not only in terms of its content but also in the way it engages readers.' People Management Traditional organizational boundaries limit our ability to deliver results.

The book argues that many of the old leadership recipes are outdated and don't take into account changes in the work environment and informal social networks within the organization. Taking a new approach to leadership theory, the author argues that modern leaders engage with employees and improve performance by building on trust, giving meaning to workplace relationships and by creating dialogue within the organization. The book provides diagnostic tools for readers to evaluate their own skills and directly relate the insights from the book to their own situation.