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Military and Political Leaders & Success : 55 Top Military and Political Leaders & How They Achieved Greatness

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This book, derived from articles in Investor's Business Daily, provides numerous helpful examples for aspiring leaders on tackling problems, acting with integrity, and sharing vision.

A great gift for a leader!

Military and Political Leaders & Success, by Investor's Business Daily (Editor) and William J. O'Neil (Introduction) is a book well written, explained with the simplicity of a good teacher. The syntheses of the analyzed characters follow a pattern of teaching intelligent. I recommend it.

As a researcher of colonial history, I found an important detail about the life of the black leader Toussaint Louverture that is not correct: Toussaint never declared the independence of Saint-Domingue's colony from France (p. 104). The Constitution that came into force in 1801, left Saint-Domingue as a colony, but under the mandate of Toussaint, which dislike the First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte.

The expedition sent by Bonaparte, under the command of his brother in law Victor Leclerc, who arrived in Santo Domingo in 1802, was intended to refer to Toussaint to obedience. The independence of Saint-Domingue, which adopted one of the original indigenous names of the island, Haiti, was declared on 1st. January 1804 by Jean Jacques Dessalines, after the death of Toussaint in Le Joux prison in France (7 April 1803), where he was sent by Leclerc in 1802. Francisco Bernardo Regino E., Santo Domingo. August 1st, 2009.

This book is highly inspirational!

Most of these successful leaders had their share of challenges, weaknesses, and failures.

Despite all the odds, they had achieved an astonishing success. This fact support the contention that setbacks are the harbinger of success.

When you add persistence, integrity, vision, discipline, and innovation to the mix, significant accomplishment is almost certain.