Leadership through Battles: Learning Leadership and Management through the Greatest Battles in History (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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History is fascinating. We all want to learn lessons from the past and apply it in our day to day life. As a leader or manager of a large organization to a small start-up company, you have a lot to do and may not have the time to read through all the fascinating history books to learn what history can offer to help you.

If you are walking in the bookstores and looking for a book to teach you history lessons that you need, you’ve picked up the right book. I wrote this book because I wanted to read it. It’s short but precise in capturing the important lessons of history battles for leaders, teaching leadership skills, management and more. Battles are fascinating moments in history. Sun Tzu states in Art of War, that the battle is won or lost before it’s ever fought. Battles capture the implementation of ideas and plans. You may have the best idea, strategy or opportunity but how you plan and execute that plan is the decisive element in your success. And that is exactly the similarity between battles and what you do as a leader in today’s business world.

This books tells the story of history’s best (or worst) leaders and shows you how you can apply the lessons of each story to situations that you will encounter on a daily basis. You will be surprised how the same lessons from historic battles can be applied in situations at your work. You’ll be equipped with hundreds of memorable stories during the course of history which will help you to be a better leader, doing what the great leaders did and avoiding what doomed others.