Accelerate Leadership Performance

"Easy to read, vital to implement. This book is packed with essential advice for the modern leader." - Paul Sloane, best-selling author on Innovation with over 2 million books sold.

Most leadership books are written by people who have never run a P&L, missed a quarter, or had to deliver bad news to a board.

This one isn't.

Accelerate Leadership Performance is a collection of 28 evidence-backed articles by Ralph Varcoe, a growth leader with nearly 30 years at the sharp end of business. Most recently, Chief Growth Officer of a technology company, where he scaled revenue. Before that, senior commercial roles spanning San Francisco to Sydney with Virgin Media Business, Tata Communications, Orange Business Services, and CenturyLink, managing multi-billion dollar company relationships.

Every article is grounded in research. Every claim is sourced. Every framework has been tested in real boardrooms with real consequences.

What you'll learn

• Why your brain makes decisions seven seconds before you're consciously aware
• Why micromanagement costs UK businesses £45 billion a year, and the nine behaviours that quietly destroy teams
• What Google's Project Aristotle revealed about psychological safety
• Why 60 to 70% of change initiatives fail, and the specific moves that put you in the minority that succeed
• Why self-belief needs a witness, and the science behind external validation in leadership
• How NLP delivers an 88% performance improvement in sales
• What the first 30 seconds of executive presence actually require
• Why companies investing £1 in mental health see £4.70 back

For leadership development, executive coaching and growth advisory, Accelerate Performance works directly with founders and leadership teams: accelerate-performance.com. If you would rather do the work yourself first, the coaching tools behind it are at piviva.com.