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This readable book reveals how people can apply the leadership wisdom of Winston Churchill to enhance the quality of their personal and professional lives.

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Larry Kryske is a respected authority on the life of Sir Winston Churchill. He has served on the Board of Directors of the International Churchill Society. Larry combines over thirty-five years of Churchill study with over thirty years of worldwide leadership and teamwork success. He is a certified trainer and seminar leader as well as a member of the National Speakers Association. A retired U.S. Navy commander, he holds a BA from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and a MS from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Larry is President and Co-founder of Homeport Training & Development.

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Introduction This book can change your life! If you are looking for a way to get off the treadmill of frustration and despair and start living the life of your dreams, you have come to the right place. The message of hope contained in this book can propel you toward your dreams. It can help you create your finest hour. The Churchill Factors is for the person who is pressed for time. You will not have to wade through laundry lists of leadership principles that are hard to remember. Instead, you will discover what really matters most about personal leadership and achieving your dreams. By keeping the ideas simple, practical, and timely, you will be able to apply these concepts right away. This book uses Winston Churchill as a role model. Unlike most of the books about Churchill, this one will not bombard you with a large number of facts, figures, or analyses of his life. That is the job for biographers and historians. The Churchill Factors can more accurately be called "applied Churchill." You will learn about Churchill's best practices involving leadership as well as his proven strategies for success. "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Goethe The real value of history is not the knowledge itself, but rather the application of the knowledge to live a more productive and fulfilling life. The late Russell Kelfer perhaps said it best when he observed that, "When knowledge becomes personal, we have understanding. Applying this understanding yields wisdom." Thus, the goal of this book is not to give you knowledge about Churchill, but rather his understanding of life that he distilled into wisdom. In his celebrated 1923 book, The Art Spirit, artist Robert Henri observed, "Simplicity is the soul of art." This belief can equally be applied to our lives. Simplicity is the soul of life! This does not imply that life is simple. Science and other disciplines have brought us an overabundance of information about every subject, including leadership and Churchill. Life is indeed complex, but if we can help other people to understand, and then apply, what they have learned, they will be able to benefit from this new understanding. Many of today's historians seem preoccupied with denigrating the decisions and character of men like Churchill. It is truly unfortunate that these learned writers second-guess decisions made in the heat of battle and with imperfect knowledge while they have abundant, detailed information gleaned years after the events from all parties involved. These 20/20 hindsight commentators should be more humble! Therefore, three quotations will serve as our guide. "Many of those who write about history like to seem wiser than those who made history." - David Howarth "Both Lincoln and Churchill have not lacked their critics; the reputations of both seem likely to endure." - Maxwell Schoenfeld "Criticism is easy; achievement is more difficult." - Winston Churchill If we truly understand a subject, we can simplify it. The most complex processes can be broken down into the most basic components. Simplifying a subject allows us to see the forest as well as the trees. Look in any bookstore and you'll find shelves devoted to every facet of leadership. (That's because leadership is one of those topics that we recognize as vitally important to our survival, both in business and in our personal lives.) We can learn the leadership secrets of everyone from Attila the Hun to Abraham Lincoln to Captain Kirk of "Star Trek." We can find books about leadership that is invented, reinvented, visionary, strategic, servant, maximized, charismatic, innovative, intuitive, breakthrough, and enlightened. We can also have our leadership by the numbers - the seven habits, the fourteen points, the twenty-one irrefutable laws, or the hundred-and-one stories.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Trafford Publishing (July 6, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 234 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1552124592
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1552124598
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.53 x 9 inches

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Stephen E. Gruber

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I have followed Larry Kryske's career for many years. As a motivational speaker he has reached thousands with the leadership principles of Sir Winston S. Churchill in a lively and practical way. In one conference that I attended some years ago, Mr. Kryske shared the same platform with a world-renowned historian on the life of Churchill. The "renowned historian" gave a written, and read, presentation on some aspect of Churchill, which droned on for over an hour. The audience was visibly bored and fidgity. Then afterwards, Larry got up and gave a 45-minute presentation on the "Churchill Factors" employing humor while at the same time, fleshing out his presentation with an oil painting demonstration! To say the least, the audience was mesmerized and completely engaged with his presentation. Larry is also a talented artist!

"The Churchill Factors" is an anthology of a lifetime of personal study and public presentations at conferences and other venues. Mr. Kryske is a recognized leading authority on the life of Churchill, but far beyond that, Larry has a rare gift of sifting through massive material in order to provide the listener -- here the reader -- with a life-changing study of practical wisdom. I keep a copy of his book handy both at work, and at home at the kitchen table, and make time to read a page here, and a page there, then contemplate the basic message to apply to my life.

"The Churchill Factors" has practical information for everyone, young and old, no matter what job you do in life, no matter what position you hold. The message is clear: you are on this planet for a purpose, and your finest hour is yet to come!

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Churchill was, without question, a fine man and example for us to follow. Learning more about Churchill, what made him great, and how he influenced history is a worthy endeavor.
Being motivated and inspired to pursue higher objectives in life, to really make a difference in the world is also a worthy endeavor. Emulating features of Churchill's life to craft your own success is also worthwhile.
As I began this book, I found myself reading sections to my wife. Good stuff here! The author's own words as well as the quotes from Churchill and other luminaries were getting my attention. I began to understand why several of my friends are such devoted students of Churchill and his influence. The first 37 pages were great.
Then Chapter 5 hit me like a bucket of ice water. I discovered to my astonishment that the author is also a distributor of behavioral style learning materials produced by Inscape Publishing. Most of the balance of the book is a description of the four principal behavioral styles and how various aspects of Churchill's attributes relate to the styles. I was tempted to toss the book away as a blatant commercial for Inscape products. There was nothing on the cover of the book, in the introduction, or in the title that suggested that this was the kind of book I discovered . . . unless you look closely at the category on the back cover and note that the words "SELF HELP" follow "BUSINESS."
The four behavioral styles of drivers, influencers, supporters, and conceptualizers were each presented with some explanation. Churchill's traits were related to each, apparently to validate for persons with each style that they, too, can be like Churchill. I felt some were rather force-fit. As a disclosure, I have used Inscape instruments and behavioral style knowledge for two decades and am a former national contract trainer for the company; I am quite familiar with the products and their philosophies.
At the end of the book is a blatant promotion for a wide range of Inscape products. For those readers who are interested in learning more about behavioral styles, it's helpful to have this catalog available. For those who were really interested in what made Churchill great-from an author touted as a Churchill expert, it's offensive.
I almost rated this book with three stars instead of four (out of five), but there is some good content. Kryske does relate some strong material, particularly in the forepart of the book before he got into the behavioral styles. The book is heavily seasoned with quotes (as call-outs); there's a quote from someone on almost every page. Many of the quotes are from Churchill, but also cited are other historical figures and present-day motivational speakers.

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