Many people aim
to be an inspiring leader, but lack the valuable skills needed to be one. Gordon
Tredgold is on hand, with over two decades of experience and his new book to try
and show us how to use leadership to achieve sustainable long-term
success.
Gordon’s new
book “Leadership: It’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint”, explains success that is
quickly achieved is easily lost and through the pages of his book, he reveals
and explains the steps to achieve success.
“I truly believe
that Simplicity, Transparency and Focus are the keys to success, we often
overlook the simple approach, are focused on the wrong, or are not transparent
enough about why we do things. In this book I show examples where I have used
these approaches to turn around failing projects, under-performing departments,
and how at 52, fat, and unfit I got myself to run my first marathon.” Gordon
adds.
About
Gordon Tredgold
Gordon
has worked in IT for over 20 years and is a specialist in Transformational
Leadership, Operational Performance Improvement, Organisational Development,
Creating Business Value via IT, and Program and Change Management.
Gordon
has an excellent Global and International experience having lived and worked in
UK, Belgium, Holland, Czech Republic, USA and Germany. He also has multi sector
knowledge including FMCG, Logistics, Utilities, Telecoms, Aviation, Banking and
Finance.
About
– Leadership: It’s a Marathon Not a Sprint
Leadership:
It’s a Marathon not Sprint, is a pragmatic Leadership guide, explaining
leadership principles in an easy to use, easy to understand and more
importantly easy implement style.
The
book is split into 26 chapters, one for each mile of the marathon. In each
chapter i explain a leadership principle in detail, provide examples of that
principle being used in a business context, then each chapter concludes with how
that principle was applied to my running goal of running my first Marathon at
the age of 52.
This
book will be of interest to existing leaders and people looking to move into
leadership.
Clear,
straightforward advice bases on the principles of Simplicity, Transparency and
Focus.
Gordon
says, “My reasoning for writing the book, and I think a good hook into the
book is that I wanted to raise money for charity, so decided to run a marathon.
As well as writing the book I managed to complete it in 6 months with no prior
training or experience, even more I got 5 others to do the same (we ran a second
marathon in Cologne in October). I will continue to run and one of the plans is
to run in Athens next year over the original course from Marathon to
Athens.”
Gordon will be donating 30% of profits to cancer charity,
one that one of his fellow runners has set up for Ovarian Cancer.
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