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Next Gen CEO
60 Lessons for Leaders in an Uncertain World
Brief Description
Everything you know about leadership is about to expire. The old rulebook is dead. Leadership is no longer just about managing people—it's about managing chaos. In sixty razor-sharp, micro-learning lessons, veteran CEO and Apprentice interviewer Mike Soutar gives you the strategic courage to lead through disruption...
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Next Gen CEO is the sharp, anti-jargon survival guide for leaders facing total disruption, delivered in sixty razor-sharp, micro-learning chapters, from Mike Soutar, CEO and Apprentice interviewer.
From Mike Soutar, the successful media entrepreneur and one of Lord Sugar's trusted advisors on The Apprentice, this is the radical new playbook for any professional ready to abandon old rules, get ahead of the changes facing the business world, and build a future-proof career.
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Description
Everything you know about leadership is about to expire.
The old rulebook is dead. Leadership is no longer just about managing people—it's about managing chaos.
In sixty razor-sharp, micro-learning lessons, veteran CEO and Apprentice interviewer Mike Soutar gives you the strategic courage to lead through disruption and a rapidly evolving business world. This book strips away outdated and abstract theories, and replaces them with essential mental models for unprecedented times.
Learn from Soutar's hard-won workplace experience, and be the person who turns internal conflict into a competitive superpower, transforms failure into their most valuable investment, and find out why being completely reasonable is sometimes an indulgence no leader can afford.
Featuring exclusive, candid wisdom from interviews, case studies, anecdotes, and personal experience, Next Gen CEO has arrived just in time for us to change our approach to business before it's too late.
Time's up on outdated business models. Don't just survive the rapidly changing business landscape. Design it.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781035095759
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 June 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Macmillan Business
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 432
Collections
Anon Anon
Business & Entrepreneurship
Business Innovation & Creativity
Business Leadership & Management
Business Strategy & Negotiation
Career Development
Company Culture & Human Resources
Mike Soutar
Mindset & Self Help
Non-Fiction
Self-Help & Personal Development
Start-ups & Entrepreneurship
Technology & Digital Transformation in Business
About the Author
Mike Soutar is a successful media entrepreneur and one of Lord Sugar's trusted advisors on the BBC's The Apprentice. He co-founded Shortlist Media, a company he grew from a five-person startup to an award-winning enterprise employing 180 staff, which he ultimately sold for a multi-million-pound sum. A veteran of the media industry, he has spent over three decades transforming businesses and mentoring new leaders. Soutar has a diverse portfolio of board roles and advisory positions across technology, media, and culture, and is known for his no-nonsense approach to entrepreneurship, resilience, and leadership.
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