No Condition is Permanent: Risk, Adventure and return: the Business of Life - Hardcover

Reid, Sir Bob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781558035 ISBN 13: 9781781558034

Publisher: Fonthill Media Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

Sir Bob Reid is former Chairman of Shell UK, British Rail, ICE Futures Europe and Deputy Governor of the Bank of Scotland, among much else. His is a story of determination and achievement shot through with political upheaval, economic reversal and industrial catastrophe. His first posting was to Borneo. Stints in Africa, Thailand and Australia followed, after which he became chair of Shell UK, responsible for all oil exploration, production, refineries and coastal shipping. He then steered disparate large organisations through challenging times by drawing on universal principles about people, power and profit that he had absorbed in his youth and expatriate years. Success was often rooted in his understanding that you don’t need to like every member of your team, but you do need to elicit and nurture each individual contribution. The wisdom gained in a lifetime of leadership---of realising the talent and energy of the people you work with---will inspire anyone who wants to make a difference in business and social enterprise, now or in the future.

About this title

About the Author

Sir Bob, former chair of Shell UK among much else, lost his right hand aged 9, learnt to write with his left and won a golfing blue at University before turning to business. This inspirational portrait of successful leadership tells how he steered global organisations through the best and worst of times by gaining trust and valuing the individual.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fonthill Media Ltd
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781558035
• ISBN 13: 9781781558034
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304