Publisher's Synopsis
Praise for Eisenhower on Leadership "Bravo! Alan Axelrod has masterfully researched how Eisenhower brilliantly employed a ragged coalition and competing egos to defeat Hitler and Mussolini. Today′s executives must also produce great results and enduring relationships under stressful circumstances, and Eisenhower provides truthful lessons to address many of our current organizational challenges. I have already used some of the book′s instruction in my consulting." —Gus Lee, author, Courage: The Backbone of Leadership "Even more profound than Ike′s brilliance as a coalition commander was his influence in shaping modern leadership principles for officers in armies of a democracy. Without question, Ike had no equal in stroking, cajoling, and ultimately successfully managing such prickly alliance personalities like Churchill, Montgomery, de Gaulle, Admiral Darlan, and Italian Marshall Badoglio. . . .Yet Ike also knew what it took to lead soldiers and build cohesive units at the tactical level; he was passionate about leadership and leader development." —From the Afterword by Lieutenant General Daniel Christman, USA (ret.) "Alan Axelrod, one of the nation′s top authorities on leadership, has produced an indispensable, highly readable book. The team of Eisenhower and Axelrod brings the power of the past to us, for application in our own lives. Eisenhower is one of the most important yet surprisingly underestimated and underexamined leaders of the twentieth century. Axelrod is uniquely able to discern and distill the leadership principles that propelled Ike from service as an aide–de–camp to Douglas MacArthur, to the heights of power and responsibility along with Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, George C. Marshall, and George S. Patton, eventually surpassing even the legendary MacArthur." —James Strock, author, Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership "Eisenhower described the purpose and function of the leadership department at the US Military Academy to, in his words, ′awaken the majority of Cadets to the necessity for handling human problems on a human basis,′ and he charged us to ′frequently call in for consultation experts both from other schools and from among persons who have made an outstanding success in industrial and economic life.′ Axelrod′s book truly represents an encapsulation of Eisenhower′s leadership legacy for leadership libraries, on and off the Academy." —Colonel Thomas A. Kolditz, PhD, professor and head, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership, United States Military Academy
