Robert Heller is Britain's best-known and best-selling author and business speaker on business management. His first title, The Naked Manager, passed into the language with its iconoclastic attack on false scientific management.
Some 50 books later came The Fusion Manager, about which Sir John Harvey-Jones wrote: 'The future lies with the thinking manager, and the thinking manager must read this book'. Published in the summer of 2003, the book attacks the fallacy of the One Big Idea and sets out a positive blueprint for managing the multiple paradoxes of business reality.
Another reviewer commented of Robert Heller that 'all British business writers owe him a debt, if not their entire living'. Heller built his unique contribution to business journalism on the knowledge first gained when running the American bureau of the Financial Times. He added more financial and economic experience while heading the City pages of The Observer, where he pioneered the personalised coverage of top managers. With that special background, he was the natural choice as founding editor of Management Today, which he rapidly turned into Britain's leading monthly business magazine - a position it has held ever since.
The top spot has been similarly retained by other magazines launched by Robert Heller during his long association with the publishers of Management Today, Haymarket Publishing Group. Highly successful titles such as Campaign, Computing and Accountancy Age testify to the unsurpassed breadth of his business knowledge. He has also gained much from practical experience as director and/or adviser to quoted and unquoted companies in fields ranging from high-tech software and financial services to public relations and contemporary art.
Knowledge and know-how have been the foundation of Robert Heller's work as a stimulating and motivational speaker to a wide range of in-company and other management audiences in many countries in Europe, the Americas and the Far East. He has worked for several of the world's largest companies, and covers the gamut of management subjects. His teaching has achieved especially wide circulation through the eminently practical Dorling Kindersley series, published together as The Essential Managers Manual. The latter and its several component titles have achieved combined and continuing world-wide sales in the millions. They were followed by the Business Masterminds studies, including books on Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Andy Grove, published together as The Road to Success. His Letter to Thinking Managers, co-written with Edward de Bono, has subscribers throughout the world.
In recent years Robert Heller, a founding member of the Global Future Forum, has been speaking and writing as a prophet of the true, lasting and dynamic digital revolution which lay beneath the dot.com bubble. The 1990 pathfinder, Culture Shock: The Office Revolution, was followed in 2000 by Riding the Revolution, a book on mastering the Internet's irresistible impact on business management, co-written with Paul Spenley. But Robert Heller has also continued to stress the eternal truths of business management in works like Goldfinger, a handbook for entrepreneurs; The Way to Win (with rugby star Will Carling); and, above all, The Fusion Manager, which he regards as the summation of his management thought to date.
Enquiries about business speaking at conferences or after dinner can be made to Robert Heller.
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