Max Richardson

The Business Boat: Leadership Management Styles in Business Max Richardson

"Running a boat is like running a business, running abusiness is like running a boat!" In this book, the author presents a simple, yetcomprehensive method to better understand andvisualise general business structures and conditions,as well as more complex Leadership Managementpractices. He does this by illustrating, analysing and applying a personally developed boatmodel called The Business Boat to various businessaspects, procedures and situations. In the firstsections, the paper introduces the fundamentalsimilarities between boats and businesses, three of today?s most essential Leadership Managementdisciplines and the application of the Business Boatmodel in various significant business scenarios. Thefinal section centres on the practical application oftwo general business models and the development ofbusiness scenarios, in order to demonstrate just howeffectively Leadership Management tools can beimplemented on the Business Boat.