How Leaders Decide
A Timeless Guide to Making Tough Choices
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- 16,99 €
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- 16,99 €
Publisher Description
"Greg's collection of the best and worst decisions in history is a practical, nuanced and timeless guide for today's decision-makers."—Mark Schortman, Chairman, Coca-Cola Bottlers Sales & Services, LLC
Can today's leaders look to history when making tough decisions?
Whether you're running a small team or an international enterprise, all leaders know the feeling of facing a tough choice. It's impossible to see into the future to predict how our decisions play out, but we can look to the momentous decisions of the past for insights on how profound choices are made. Each decision made by influential figures, from Alfred Nobel and Marie Curie to Martin Luther King, Jr., and The Beatles, have shaped our world—and now they can help you make the decisions that will determine the direction of your organization.
Guiding you through fifty-two dramatic historical events and decisions that changed the course of our world, How Leaders Decide challenges decision-makers with provocative ideas and leadership lessons that will propel your business forward. Greg Bustin's well-researched and inspiring stories of high-stakes turning points in history and the leaders that made the final call will help you make sure your next decision is the one that changes everything.
How Leaders Decide is an essential book for readers of Start with Why and Leaders Eat Last!
Additional Praise for How Leaders Decide:
"Exceptional leaders are lifelong learners, and Greg has collected, organized and presented these leadership lessons to stimulate learning, inform decision-making, and inspire action. This is a book that all teams and business leaders should read."—Elizabeth Bryant, Chief Learning Officer, Southwest Airlines
"Talk about the perfect combination! In How Leaders Decide, Greg Bustin combines fascinating history with succinct leadership insights to showcase 52 of the greatest leadership decisions the world has seen"—Gordon Leidner, author of The Leadership Secrets of Hamilton
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bustin chair of three Vistage International groups, for CEOs, presidents, and partners issues lessons on aping the successes, while avoiding the errors, of history's greats in this slapdash, skimpy guide. After witnessing Vistage members struggling with decision-making, Bustin was moved, he explains, to assemble this collection of stories, some "stirring," others cautionary. Businesspeople are meant to read it over the course of a year, one lesson per week, in 10 minutes or less. Each describes a decision made by a notable figure during a critical moment, such as Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon or General Custer ordering the pursuit of Native American forces before the Battle of Little Bighorn. However, with 52 separate chapters, the individual entries can only touch briefly on each person including Charles Darwin, Charles Dow, Alfred Nobel, and Steve Jobs and thus rarely have the opportunity to say anything new. Moreover, of the 52 people and groups profiled, all but five (Hattie Caraway, Marie Curie, Queen Elizabeth I, Emily Post, and Mary Edwards Walker) are men and all but four are white. The would-be tycoons of tomorrow are unlikely to feel either inspired or enlightened by this superficial survey.
