Magic Sponge - Hardcover

Olly Purnell And Andy Cottrill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1527279006 ISBN 13: 9781527279001

Publisher: Q5 Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

Magic Sponge is a book on business leadership. 2010-20 is a decade that few will forget.
This book - like the decade it covers - opens with the business world slowly emerging from the dark clouds of the Credit Crunch and ends engulfed by the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Each chapter contains interviews with interesting leaders, mainly from the business world, who provide glimpses of their leadership experiences. It captures their perspectives and insights. It explores their inspirations and influences. It gently teases out some of their exhilarating 'highs', as well as discombobulating 'lows'.
There is a sub-story running through the book too. The decade that Magic Sponge covers also charts the progress of Q5, the management consulting firm, over its first ten years of being. Set up in 2009, Q5 was launched by five friends in an old house in Westminster. By 2020, the firm had become one of the leading authorities on 'organisational change' around the world.
Featuring Jonathan Powell (Tony Blair’s former Chief of Staff at 10 Downing Street), Dame Carolyn McCall (CEO of ITV, formerly CEO of easyJet, Guardian Media Group), Lord Dennis Stevenson (business mentor and former FTSe 100 chairman), John Varvatos (founder of the eponymous fashion brand), Alison Loehnis (President of YOOX NET A PORTER), Mike Souter (from The Apprentice), Tony Danker (Director General of the CBI) and many more.

"A highly enjoyable read, from a terrific crew of people". William Lewis, CEO Dow Jones & Publisher of Wall Street Journal (2014-2020)
"This is a hugely insightful book featuring people who normally stay clear of interviews entirely." David Yeeland, CEO, Kitchen Table Partners

Edition details

• Publisher: Q5 Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1527279006
• ISBN 13: 9781527279001
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200