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Way of the Warrior, The

Way of the Warrior, The
By James F Dunnigan

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Comprehensive, insightful and extremely accessible, this book reveals the management lessons of history's finest military leaders, including Alexander the Great on having vision, Ghengis Khan on quick decisions, Julius Caesar on communication, Napoleon on managing change, U.S. Grant on the art of the turnaround, Douglas McArthur on coping with disaster, and Norman Schwarzkopf on building alliances.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #988886 in Books
  • Published on: 1997-10-28
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 224 pages

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From Library Journal
Thomas Dunne Bk: St. Martin's. Nov. 1997. 224p. index. ISBN 0-312-17061-0.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Ingram
Comprehensive, insightful and extremely accessible, this book reveals the management lessons of history's finest military leaders, including Alexander the Great on having vision, Ghengis Khan on quick decisions, Julius Caesar on communication, Napoleon on managing change, U.S. Grant on the art of the turnaround, Douglas McArthur on coping with disaster, and Norman Schwarzkopf on building alliances.

About the Author

James Dunningan is an adviser and lecturer to the State Department, Army War College, National Defense University, CIA, and many other institutions. Author of the classic military manual, How to Make War, Dunnigan served as NBC's Gulf War analyst and is the author of fifteen books. He lives in New York City.

Daniel Masterson leads a major software company and has done significant work in making computer war games. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Customer Reviews

Lead from the front4
From Alexander the Great to General Schwarzkopf, all great leaders in their time. The term Captain is uded readily, instead of General, as the title implies, but it hardly makes a difference.

Although leading from the front can be taught in an afternoon, it is spelled out in this book, constantly.

One thing about Generals in war should be said. The victor isn't always the one with the best plan, but the one who made the least blunders.

Not one of the best, but certainly worth reading.

airport-terminal book2
This book can be read on a three-hour plane trip, but I bought it for a leadership class in college. The Way Of The Warrior is inappropriate for higher education, and should only be read for entertainment. Leadership is important, history is important, but if this book is the standard of which our students should be judged there is something definitely wrong.

Worth reading by MBAs, business professors and managers.4
Great book - and I'm very picky about business books, since selling books and being a successful manager can rarely be done simultaneously. PLUS, as a trained manager, most of the pop-management garbage out there isn't targeted to me anyway.

Jim Dunnigan takes an often overlooked aspect of business and military management bringin home the goods in an easy-to-read, and downright witty style of writing. The Way of the Warrior is hard to put down.

The book would make a great read for college and B-School students studying organizational behavior, applied management and interpersonal communication. The last chapter ties it all together rather nicely. Though it's debatable that leadership can be taught let alone easily defined, this book serves as a great entre into where military history and game theory overlap.

My only complaint - more detail! More military figures, and what about the awful military leaders? Maybe a sequel is in order.

Jim Dunnigan also wrote a great book about WARGAMING.