The 60 Second Leader

By Phil Dourado, Capstone Publishing, £9.99

Broken down into bite-size chapters this book would make excellent toilet-time reading for the would-be leader. It’s packed full of words of wisdom and anecdotes alongside advice, quotes and stories collected by author Phil Dourado.

If you really don’t have time to read this book, Dourado, true to his word, boils his advice on leadership down to this: think of all the things done to you by a boss that you hated and don’t ever do them to others; then think of all the things done to you which you loved and always do them to others. How’s that for a new year resolution?