Take Command!: Leadership Lessons from the Civil War - Softcover

Wheeler, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385495196 ISBN 13: 9780385495196

Publisher: Doubleday Business, 2001

Synopsis

A veteran business leader shares a compilation of lessons in strategy, leadership, and management based on the great battlefield decisions of the Civil War, presenting such cardinal rules as "If you can't win, change the rules" or "Never fight today's battles with yesterday's tactics." Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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From the Back Cover

Advance acclaim for Leadership Lessons from the Civil War:

"We find, in the echoes of our most defining moment, lessons of almost eternal durability--about freedom, courage, purpose, and of course, leadership. Tom Wheeler knows this in his bones and shares with us much of the positive inheritance of that awful war. There is much to learn here, a primer for being as well as business."
--Ken Burns

"Leadership Lessons from the Civil War is a powerful response to the great challenges that take place in the battlefields of today's corporate culture--The lessons are not only relevant to the massive social and technological change of today's new workplace, they can be applied to any leadership situation, in any era."
--Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute ManagerTM

"An extraordinary book that combines the principles of leadership, war, and business into one highly readable lesson. If you buy only one book on leadership, this is the book."
--Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

"This entertaining look at the parallels between business and military strategy is just what one would expect from a successful leader like Tom Wheeler. His many career achievements provide yet more support for the 'lessons' that are the focus of this book."
--Craig O. McCaw, Chairman and CEO, Eagle River, Inc., and founder of McCaw Communications

"Practical, insightful--and a good read. Tom Wheeler demonstrates convincingly that the principles of leadership transcend the boundaries of time and discipline. This is a book as much about the future as it is about the past."
--Tom Daschle, United States Senate

From the Inside Flap

ssons for today's business leaders culled from the great leaders and battlefield decisions of the Civil War.

"War," Tom Stoppard writes in his brilliant play Travesties, "is capitalism with the gloves off."

Business has often been likened to war. Given their similarities, what better way to learn about strategic business leadership than from the battlefield triumphs--and catastrophes--of America's greatest conflict, the Civil War? In Leadership Lessons from the Civil War, former CEO and telecommunications leader Tom Wheeler distills basic leadership strategies used in the Civil War into nine specific lessons--illustrated with in-depth stories of battlefield decisions--that can help guide business leaders today.

Through Union General George McClellan's devastating encounters with Confederate General Robert E. Lee, for example, we see the consequences of one leader's fear of failure: ultimate defeat. Had McClellan been

Edition details

• Publisher: Doubleday Business
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0385495196
• ISBN 13: 9780385495196
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256