ISBN:
9780750946612
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (305 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Management Secrets from History : Historical Wisdom for Modern Business
DDC:
303.3/4
Keywords:
Leadership
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Leadership -- Anecdotes
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
If you could go back in time and ask any historical figure for advice on how best to manage your business or staff, who would it be? Benjamin Franklin, Niccolo Machiavelli, Elizabeth I or Helen Rubinstein? Well, they are all here, and more… Featuring nearly 20 figures from across two and a half millennia, this fascinating book brings you peerless advice on, and insights into, the essential nature of leadership and the human condition. Presented in their own words - through diaries, letters and published works (plus contemporary analysis and contemporary from Diehl and Donnelly) - the advice is
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contents by topic; Acnowledgements; Introduction; Section I: Dictators, Despots and Rogue Thinkers; Sun Tzu; Niccolo Machiavelli; The Pirate Code; Section II: Holymen and Higher Powers; Moses; Pope Gregory; Hildegard von Bingen; Section III: Industrialists and Merchant Princes; HJ Heinz; Helena Rubinstein; Lillian Vernon; Section IV: Kings, Queens and Conquerors; Hammurabi; Solomon; King John; King Edward I; Queen Elizabeth I; Section V: Philosophers and Sages; Confucius; William Shakespeare; Bejamin Franklin; Elbert Hubbard; Lillian Gilbreth
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Bibliography/Permission acknowledgements
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