The Character Edge: Leading and Winning with Integrity - Hardcover

Jr., Robert L. Caslen; Matthews, Michael D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 152903504X ISBN 13: 9781529035049

Publisher: Macmillan, 2021

Synopsis

True leadership is about character – this is the key to winning ‘the right way’.

In a world where we’re bombarded by messages of ‘winning at any cost’, dishonest politicians, CEOs committing fraud, disgraced military commanders and cheating athletes, integrity matters more than ever. The Character Edge explains the powerful role character plays in trust, culture and leadership, and offers readers tools to exercise and strengthen their own.

Reaching from the battlefield to the classroom and beyond, former superintendent of West Point Robert Caslen and professor of psychology Dr. Michael Matthews, explore the vital link between strong character and strong leadership, and explain why the latter cannot exist without the former.

‘Caslen and Matthews show how and why this fundamental inner architecture of leadership can – and must – be built.' Jim Collins, bestselling author of Good to Great.

About this title

About the Authors

Lieutenant General Robert L. Caslen, Jr. is the 29th president of the University of South Carolina. Caslen is a retired Army lieutenant general and former superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point. After retiring from the Army in 2018, Caslen became the senior counsel to the president at the University of Central Florida. Caslen grew up in Vermont, worked in his family’s ski lodge, and then was recruited to play football at West Point. Along with his bachelor’s degree from West Point, Caslen holds an MBA in finance from Long Island University and a master’s in industrial engineering from Kansas State University. He and his wife, Shelly, have been married for forty-two years and have three sons and four grandchildren.

Michael D. Matthews is Professor of Engineering Psychology at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He served as President of the American Psychological Association’s Society for Military Psychology from 2007 to 2008 and is a Templeton Foundation Senior Positive Psychology Fellow. From 2014 to 2015, he served as a Fellow for the U.S. Army Chief of Staff’s Strategic Studies Group. He has authored more than 250 scientific papers and edited several books on military psychology, and is the author of Head Strong: How Psychology is Revolutionizing War, Human Performance Optimization (co-edited with David M. Schnyer), and The Science and Ethics of Enhancing Human Capabilities.

From the Back Cover

True leadership is about character – the key to winning ‘the right way’. The Character Edge shows you why this is so important in today’s social environment and how to achieve it.

‘Inspiring and practical in equal measure, drawing upon both scientific research and personal experience in how, and why, to develop strengths of heart, mind and gut’
Angela Duckworth, CEO of Character Lab and bestselling author of Grit

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 152903504X
• ISBN 13: 9781529035049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352