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With the new reality of the 21st century, so much has been written about the leadership skills for today’s world, contributing to the profusion and bringing more confusion.

This book, grounded in research, reviews 150 years of leadership literature to provide a uniquely comprehensive, clear set of the required leadership competencies for the 21st century, including tips to put them in practice. The book also answers essential questions such as: what is leadership and are leaders born or made?

A must-read for: everyone wishing to become an effective leader for our current times, human resources professionals in their quest to recruit and develop talents, managing directors and CEOs to create a leadership culture adapted to the 21st century within their organizations, leaders in the education industry to adjust their training programs and curriculums, and professionals who intend to identify the relevant competencies to accelerate their career.

“A great book! Guy digs deep into the leadership literature and provides, in a straight-forward and nice to read style, a great framework for everyone to become a better leader in the 21st century. I loved the competencies and the “Skills in Action” chapter that I regularly go back to for inspiration.” 

Christophe Merkel, CEO Active brands (former executive: Nike, L’Oreal and Danone)

“For every HR executive, this book is a great blueprint to develop and hire leaders that can be efficient in our current time. The book is well written and very helpful to develop and hire leaders.

I particularly enjoyed the chapters on the emerging leadership competencies for the 21st century and on the six principles for leadership training and development. I found that the competencies were very clearly described as well as the skills and traits they were associated with, making that part very practical and action oriented for today's leaders.”

Orelie P., Chief Human Resources Officer

“A must-read for everyone who aspires to become a great leader and to engage in thoughtful and meaningful actions. Guy has a powerful ability to demystify complex, but fundamental, subjects. He frames them in a clear, concise, digestible and, most importantly, applicable manner.

This book is a superb kaleidoscope of leadership approaches and presents the set of leadership skills essential to succeed in our modern world.”

Yulia Kalinina, Vice President, J.P. Morgan

“Leadership can be learned; successful leaders balance teams and management with inspiration and purpose for greater productivity and top results. But how can you learn to be such a successful Leader? Mr Ngayo Fotso’s little book offers an enlightening read. It is logically organised, its contents rest on many years of research, and it provides an excellent orientation in clear English on a complex topic that is hotly debated among business leaders, HR managers and management consultants around the world. With this little book, the old debate on the Leader’ skills and competencies comes to a fruitful end.”

Olivier Brenninkmeijer PhD, Academic Dean of European University Business School, Munich, Germany, and former Leadership Development Trainer at the Humanitarian Leadership Management School, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva, Switzerland.

“In the now crowded, congested area of Leadership books that would give people vague promises of supporting the battered, helpless leaders and managers out there with endless marches of theories and dead bits of knowledge, this book, Leadership by Dr. Guy Ngayo - someone with exceptional real-case expertise and practice - is a piece of work done from perspectives of those who are in need for change.

Dr. Ngayo offers the readers only the essence of academic knowledge required as a fundamental basis with a shrewd professional view that has successfully grown talented managers and leaders so far. It's possibly the most compressive and well-organized version of leadership theories and practices, making leadership a must-skills for everyone who works for organizations from mere good-to-have knowledge.

However, most helpful of all is Dr. Ngayo's distinguished and skilled approach to the issues of a presumably boring topic, Leadership, which gives the readers an easy grasp of what leadership is and what it is for in the world of fast innovation and transformation that we live in today.”

Sehoon Kim, Team Lead, Information Service, Toyota Motor, South Korea.