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Gandhi, CEO: 14 Principles to Guide & Inspire Modern Leaders Hardcover – May 4, 2010
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Fourteen lessons to instruct, inspire, and encourage?
Historys great leaders have much to teach us, and no one outshines Alan Axelrod in extracting those lessons and applying them to todays business world. His Elizabeth I, CEO and Patton on Leadership both became BusinessWeek bestsellers?and now, to follow his recent Winston Churchill, CEO, Axelrod has found a new and perhaps surprising subject for his popular format: Gandhi.
Gandhi, a CEO? Absolutely?and an incomparable example for our uncertain times, when we need leaders we can trust and admire. Not only was he a moral and intensely spiritual man, but also a supremely practical manager and a powerful agent for change, able to nurture the rebirth of an entire nation. To achieve this goal, he mastered the elements of personal leadership and institutional management. Axelrod looks at this much-studied figure in a way nobody has before, employing his fluid, engaging, and conversational style to bring each lesson to life through quotes and vivid examples from Gandhis life.
- Print length210 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherUnion Square & Co.
- Publication dateMay 4, 2010
- Dimensions6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101402758065
- ISBN-13978-1402758065
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- Publisher : Union Square & Co. (May 4, 2010)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 210 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1402758065
- ISBN-13 : 978-1402758065
- Item Weight : 1.06 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,794,109 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #36,781 in Leadership & Motivation
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About the author
I am the author of some 150 books on leadership, management, careers, history, military history, corporate history, career, general business, and other nonfiction. After receiving my Ph.D. in English (specializing in early American literature and culture) from the University of Iowa in 1979, I taught early American literature and culture at Lake Forest College (Lake Forest, Illinois) and at Furman University (Greenville, South Carolina). I was an editor and scholar with the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum (Winterthur, Delaware), an institution specializing in the history and material culture of America prior to 1832. I was associate editor at Van Nostrand Reinhold (New York), senior editor at Abbeville Press (New York), and vice president of Zenda, Inc. (New York and Nashville), a consulting firm to museums and cultural institutions. In 1994, I became director of development (senior acquisitions editor) for Turner Publishing, Inc. (Atlanta), a subsidiary of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., and in 1997, I founded The Ian Samuel Group, Inc., a consulting, creative services, editing, and online content provider in Atlanta.
I have been a creative consultant (and on-camera personality) for The Wild West television documentary series (Warner Bros., 1993), Civil War Journal (A&E Network, 1994), “The American Experience” series (PBS, 2016), and The Discovery Channel, and he has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, CNNfn, CNBC, Fox Network affiliates in Philadelphia and Atlanta, and numerous radio news and talk programs, including National Public Radio. He and his work have been featured in BusinessWeek, Fortune, Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan, Inc., Atlanta Business Chronicle, and many newspapers, including Atlanta Journal-Constitution and USA Today. Axelrod has served as consultant for the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum (Rochester, New York), the Airman Memorial Museum (Suitland, Maryland), and the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum (Winterthur, Delaware).
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Nevertheless if I think to those managers or business people who have little if none interest in anything else than money, little time to read anything than balance sheets and statistics (apart from the FT or WSJ, or the Economist, of course!) I can see that maybe this book will be the best opportunity to introduce them to the thoughts of such a person that "generations to come will scarce believe that he walked on this Earth" (Albert Einstein).
Hence my praise for the author who had the creativity to conceive this book.
Having said that (of course this has nothing to do with Gandhi) but the Author is stretching what Gandhi taught as if he was a CEO and having worked in Fortune 50 companies for over twenty years call me a cynic. If they had a chance of behaving this way we wouldn't be in the mess we are.
So as for the book, the stuff about Gandhi is nice and interesting and has merit for individuals but don't expect to have your CEO take a look. The book is set up in short essays taking Gandhi's teaching and trying to apply it to the running of businesses, which Gandhi wouldn't have had a thing to do with, but its at times interesting and at times boring.