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Book Description

Success often depends on the strength of a single quality: leadership. Winston Churchill is universally recognized as one of the 20th century's great political leaders and his words ring just as true in the world of commerce. A wise, witty, and inspiring leader, Churchill ran Great Britain like a great corporation.

"Perhaps the finest book on practical leadership ever written." — Brian Tracy

Churchill on Leadership demonstrates that the principles that guided Churchill ably translate to private industry today. Author Steven F. Hayward gives strong evidence that, if you remove Churchill from his political context, he would have the resume to be among the great business leaders of any age. Churchill:

? was a financier (as chancellor of the Exechequer) and labor negotiator (as home secretary)

? managed a large transportation network (as head of the British Navy) and far-flung property holdings (as colonial secretary)

? persevered through bankruptcies and other financial disasters

? conceived and introduced innovative new products over the opposition of his colleagues, and reorganized major production operations in the midst of crisis.

With wit and insight, Hayward reveals Churchill's secrets for business success from assembling and inspiring a first-rate team to preparing a wise budget, from communicating a vision to structuring effective meetings, from acting decisively to rebounding from a failure. Laced with epochal events from the historical stage, enlivened with stimulating speculation, and leavened with wit, Churchill on Leadership is both an enjoyable read and a thought-provoking lesson on leadership.

Amazon.com

Scotch and cigars are making a popular comeback, so perhaps the time is ripe for the 20th century's most famous scotch-drinking and cigar-smoking leader to do the same. In the vein of the best-selling book Lincoln on Leadership, Steven F. Hayward looks at the much-studied Winston Churchill in a way nobody has before. Although Churchill on Leadership is pitched to a business audience, its lessons have a wider resonance. Churchill, of course, is best remembered as a political

From Booklist

Analyzing leadership is difficult; its definition is elusive. Writers usually resort to identifying someone they perceive as being an effective leader and then select various attributes the individual possesses, suggesting that others would do well to emulate them. This method has recently been applied to leaders as diverse as Attila the Hun and Mahatma Gandhi. Hayward chooses Winston Churchill, a figure who occupies the continuum somewhere between those two examples. The author is a director at the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, a think tank devoted to free enterprise and individual rights, and a frequent contributor to Reason, the magazine dedicated to "free minds and free markets." In selecting Churchill, Hayward provides numerous examples of the statesman's candor and plainspokenness, decisiveness, historical imagination, and ability to balance overview with attention to detail.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　David Rouse

From AudioFile

To satisfy both his loves, Hayward brings together Churchill and business. Surprisingly, it proves to be a happy marriage. Chronicling the events of Churchill's long career to sift out the mix of qualities that enabled his success as a wartime leader, Hayward discovers the very qualities needed by business leaders in today's warlike competitive climate. What are they? In short, a love of history, a love of the English language, the need to take charge and the heart for a good scrap! British reader Stuart Langton reads Churchill's quips and Hayward's narrative with clarity and precision. Both are delivered in a steady rhythm and even, thoughtful pacing. But Churchill is voiced more dramatically, as the "last lion" should be, and it is really his voice in the end that we hear through Langton and Hayward. Let the CEO take note! There's a place again for long, expansive memos. P.E.F.

Book Dimension :

length: (cm)21.2 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)14.7