Download or read book Leadership Skills for Boosting Performance written by Terry Gillen and published by CIPD Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry Gillen proposes that practical leadership is about orchestrating better performance - not by coercion or pulling rank but by creating the conditions so that people want to perform better. Hyperbole and abstract theories are cast aside in favour of ideas that can be put into action immediately.