James O'Toole is a highly successful business writer, whose previous books include Vanguard Management which was named as one of the top business books of 1985 by Business Week. He is Executive Director of the Leadership Institute and a former Director of the Twenty Year Forecast Project which advised the top management of 30 of the largest companies in the US.Local interest: he gained his doctorate at Oxford University, where he studied Anthropology as a Rhodes Scholar.

both intellectually provocative and pragmatically instructive for a corporate manager