Table Of ContentTable of Contents
Foreword
Jimmy’s Diary
Chapter 1: Fishing for Life
Chapter 2: Shiny Happy People
Chapter 3: Some of the People, Some of the Time
Chapter 4: Glowing On the Outside
Chapter 5: Can God Do a Handstand?
Chapter 6: Busyness As Usual
Chapter 7: Pants on the Outside
Chapter 8: Your Beautiful Mind
Chapter 9: Nellie Breaks Free
Chapter 10: Nellie Breaks Free
Chapter 11: The 90/10 Principle
Chapter 12: Tigger is a Trigger (And Eeyore is Too!)
Chapter 13: Beware of the Garbage Trucks
Chapter 14: Chumbawumba
Chapter 15: Share a Hugg
Chapter 16: Strengthening Your Strengths
Chapter 17: Omnipotent Handstands
Back of the Book
References
About the authors...
Acknowledgements
The 2%ers club...
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Foreword
Have you ever achieved something in your life that you are very proud of, and then
someone else comes along and does it better, like being trumped at cards?
Well, there I was, thinking I had achieved that elusive magic element in ‘The Naked
Leader’ books – simplicity. Simplicity in stripping down to the essentials, and then
stripping them down even further, until you end up with pure common sense, which in
this age of information overwhelm is, sadly, not so common.
Then along came Andy Cope’s first book, Being Brilliant. Full of the blindingly
obvious, stuff we can make happen in our personal as well as business lives, and with
bags of humour thrown in.
And, to add insult to injury, he even had the bare-faced cheek to ask me for an
endorsement! How was I supposed to endorse a book that does what I set out to do, but
so much better?
Still, I wrote an endorsement, consoled myself that this was a one off, a true one book
wonder, and relaxed.
Then one day – THUMP – a large envelope hit the mat. And, guess what? It was now
two Andys with this book – The Art of Being Brilliant. And this time they didn’t just
want an endorsement, they wanted me to write a foreword!
No way. How am I supposed to write about a book that is written with such easy-to-
follow language, in such a clear and practical style, and which has at least one simple
idea on every page that you can make happen straight away?
And with illustrations!!
No, it’s all too much.
Sorry Andys – the answer has to be no.
Now, will you please stop writing such great books, and go get proper jobs!
David Taylor
David works with world-class leaders and organisations, is author of the best-
selling ‘Naked Leader’ books, the Honorary Professor of Leadership at Warwick
University Business School and a Business Ambassador for The Prince’s Trust.
www.nakedleader.com
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