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Mon 12 Dec 2008Hands-on advice for business chiefs

BOOK REVIEW:On Leadership by Allan Leighton; Random House; €11

ALLAN LEIGHTON has had a rather busy career spanning over 35 years. It has taken him from a salesman for Mars Corporation, to president and chief executive of Wal-Mart Europe in 1999. In 2002 he was appointed by Tony Blair to help restructure the Royal Mail.