Patton's One-Minute Messages: Tactical Leadership Skills of Business Managers

A brief biography and photos of General Patton helps readers visualize one of the great military leaders of all time. The inspirational content will make this book an indispensable compaion for busy executives everywhere.

This collection of George S. Patton’s pithy one-liners shows how business managers can succeed by applying the combat-tested principles of one of America's most famous battlefield leaders. General Patton was a professional soldier who spent his life inspiring people to accomplish the seemingly impossible. Now managers can use his secrets to motivate their employees. The author takes brief quotations from Patton’s writings and draws the deep inner philosophy from them. This way, managers can easily grasp the principles involved and make practical use of them to get great performance and productivity from their employees.

The book also presents the work of W. Edwards Deming and Walter A. Shewhart, two pioneers in quality control who have influenced management practice for over fifty years. Their philosophy is very similar to Patton’s—which is not surprising, since the fundamental principles of both military leadership and business management are universal.

Charles Province grew up in a small mining town and on his grandpa's farm in southeast Missouri. Following high school, he joined the U.S. Army and learned to wire and operate the ancient IBM punch-card machines—the precursors to today's computers. Province spent many years working for computer manufacturing companies such as DEC, CDC, IBM, and Apple. He worked as a computer liaison and desktop computer specialist for the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper for forty years and was a computer science instructor in the San Diego Community College District. Subject matters of his books include General George S. Patton Jr., the Korean War, World War II, military history, computer science, and autobiographies. He is also an accomplished actor, author of stage plays, singer, and all-round entertainer. He owns a small publishing house that helps people publish family histories.