An instant national bestseller Stanley Mc Chrystal, the retired US Army general and bestselling author of Team of Teams, profiles thirteen of history\'s great leaders, including Walt Disney, Coco Chanel, and Robert E.
Lee, could seemingly do everything right in his military career and yet lead the Confederate Army to a devastating defeat in the servic.
Finally, Mc Chrystal explores how his former hero, General Robert E. - Martin Luther and his future namesake Martin Luther King Jr., both local clergymen, emerged from modest backgrounds to lead world-changing movements. - Both Boss Tweed in nineteenth-century New York and Margaret Thatcher in twentieth-century Britain followed unlikely roads to the top of powerful institutions.
We can draw surprising lessons from them about motivation and persuasion. - Maximilien Robespierre helped shape the French Revolution in the eighteenth century
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi led the jihadist insurgency in Iraq in the twenty-first.
Both had public personas that sharply contrasted with how they lived in private. - Walt Disney and Coco Chanel built empires in very different ways. . .
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With Plutarch\'s Lives as his model, Mc Chrystal looks at paired sets of leaders who followed unconventional paths to success.
He uses their stories to explore how leadership works in practice and to challenge the myths that complicate our thinking about this critical topic.
Mc Chrystal profiles thirteen famous leaders from a wide range of eras and fields--from corporate CEOs to politicians and revolutionaries.
During those years he worked with countless leaders and pondered an ancient question: "What makes a leader great?" He came to realize that there is no simple answer.
Stan Mc Chrystal served for thirty-four years in the US Army, rising from a second lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne Division to a four-star general, in command of all American and coalition forces in Afghanistan.
Lee, to show that leadership is not what you think it is--and never was.
An instant national bestseller Stanley Mc Chrystal, the retired US Army general and bestselling author of Team of Teams, profiles thirteen of history\'s great leaders, including Walt Disney, Coco Chanel, and Robert E
