21 Leadership Lessons

Successes, Failures, and Discoveries from a Life in Business and Sports

Richard Peddie has learned many leadership lessons over a long and successful business career as president of Hostess Foods, Pillsbury Canada, SkyDome, NetStar Communications, the Toronto Raptors, and Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE).

Here, he shares the twenty-one most important lessons he learned—and sometimes relearned—along the way. 21 Leadership Lessons contains a lifetime of business wisdom, serving as a mentor-in-a-book for the next generation of business leaders, and a valuable refresher for those more experienced.

Full of candid personal stories of successes and discoveries, major challenges, and even failures, 21 Leadership Lessons includes worldly business advice for young, aspiring leaders, from the corporate sector, the sports world, as well as from the government and not-for-profit sectors.

As entertaining as it is instructive, 21 Leadership Lessons covers a wide range of topics, including:

• the importance of vision and values
• the need for contrary thinkers
• leading with an edge
• the need to say thank you—often
• walking the talk
• how to be a complete coach, and more.

Also supplementing the leadership lessons themselves are Peddie’s lists of 21: his 21 favourite quotes, 21 invaluable tips from other proven leaders, his 21 favourite leadership books, and others.

If you aspire to being an excellent leader someday, your leadership journey is never done—and 21 Leadership Lessons will give you the perfect head start on your own road to success.