Author: Tim Robson
Publisher: Capstone
Reviewer: Graham Forsyth, marketing manager, UK & Ireland, SuccessFactors
Tim Robson’s book, Showing Up – How to make a greater impact at work, is about delivering your full potential. It’s about changing the way we think and act at work, the positive impact this will have on our personal life, being creative, enjoying what we do and ultimately enjoying life.
For the creatives and marketers amongst us I believe we should be working in environments which harness, encourage, and actually expect creativity and challenging the status quo. Many don’t have this environment to flourish in, and Robson highlights how organisational structure can restrict talent.
But it has important messages for managers, leaders and mentors as well. The points made will help to read the signs of talent not delivering as they could, not engaging as the individual has the potential to do, and therefore support the nurture of talent and encourage individual excellence.
By looking at the book’s endorsements, Sir Clive Woodward and Steve Backley to name two, you can probably gauge the tone. It’s upbeat, it’s positive, it’s fresh. But while a copy was sat on my coffee table an interesting question was posed: ‘What makes Tim Robson an authority?” With any book of this nature it’s a fair point and the big plus to this book is Robson’s experience. The anecdotes about him and others are honest, valuable and you can relate.
Other endorsements come from a regional manager at HSBC, and the chief people officer at Yorkshire Building Society. It’s a book that spans experience and reputation.
The book helps if you want to reshape your way of thinking about work practices to achieve more success and I challenge anyone not to uncover something from this book that can be taken away and positively applied to themselves, or their business.
A very good read, and yes, I know I do ‘show up’ for work.
Star Rating:
4/5
