Music is the language of the emotions. Leadership is about handling the emotional life of an enterprise and its people as much as it is about looking after the balance sheet. The highest performing leaders in the world understand that if you look after the people, the numbers look after themselves.

In this audiobook, we’ve used poetic licence and sometimes, creative extrapolation and three degrees of mental playfulness to extract lessons from the titles, lyrics and insights from rock and pop songs and singers for leaders and people who want to learn at the speed of sound. People tell us that our lessons are faster, longer lasting and both superficial and deep all in the same moment, when compared with a standard leadership book or development programme.

What can you learn about innovation from Prince?
What can Roberta Flack teach you about leadership?
Are there hidden meanings in David Bowie's songs about business entrepreneurship?
And so on ...

Leo and Peter bring our whole lives into creative contention. Leo is a professional music teacher and event organiser. Peter a leadership consultant, author and speaker. With some great contributions from other members of The Academy of Rock who are ready to bring this to life in your company or enterprise, for superior results.

So, enjoy the raucous and sometimes psychedelic leaps of faith between the daily quotes and parallel leadership lessons. Please send your own favourite quotes and interpretations in for Volume II of this audiobook.