Grass Roots Leaders

The book I read to research this post was Grass Roots Leaders by Tony Buzan et al which is an excellent book which I bought from kindle. Apparently when this book they planned on doing an updated edition of one of their previous books but there have been so many discoveries in things like how the brain works and things like how to learn something that they realized they had to write a completely different book. This book does look at speed reading, mind mapping and the best ways to learn but it's a business book so most of it is about things like empowering employees. An important concept in business is giving employees a problem and letting them solve it which is often referred as empowering them. There is a case study in the book about Holiday Inn Arena who couldn't compete with the luxury rooms and their rooms were normally quite small. They got around this by describing their rooms as cosy in brochures and made sure the staff were very friendly and solved any problems that came up. They tried people really enjoyed staying at their hotels. This is something that often comes up in business that something that you might think is a disadvantage can be turned into an advantage by looking at it from a different angle and looking at what your company can excel in.