The Time Traveller's Guide to Management
Workplace stories that reveal real world leadership lessonsBy Nigel RidpathRecorded TrackLength6h 44m
About this audiobook
Seven journeys through history. Seven pivotal moments. Seven management lessons that will stay with you long after the final chapter.
August is a time traveller with an unusual gift: he (and sometimes, she) arrives exactly where great leadership is being tested — and often found wanting. In fin-de-siecle Paris, a newly-widowed publisher can't understand why her team lack motivation. In Elizabethan England, an innkeeper tries to manage every employee the same way and watches the business flounder. In Soviet mission control, a recruitment decision will determine whether a mission succeeds or not.
The Time Traveller's Guide to Management uses historical fiction to do what no bullet-pointed framework ever quite manages: it makes the lessons unforgettable, because you lived through the stories first. Practical, gripping and genuinely useful — for anyone who leads people, or one day intends to.
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics
Length6 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateFeb 28, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Chapter 1: Understanding Motivation
3Chapter 2: Building a High-Performance Team
4Chapter 3: Effective Recruitment
5Chapter 4: Managing Underperformers Out of the Organisation
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6Chapter 5: Situational Leadership
7Chapter 6: Personal Effectiveness
8Chapter 7: Effective Delegation
9Acknowledgements
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