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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Tom Wheeler is president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and former president of the National Cable Television Association. He has founded and run telecommunications companies, and has had up-close and personal relationships with virtually all the influential figures in telecommunications for the last twenty years. He lives with his wife in the Washington, D.C., area.
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
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