The 100 Greatest Leadership Principles of All Time
Introduction
Leadership is a matter of intelligence, trustworthiness, humaneness,
courage, and discipline ... Reliance on intelligence alone results
in rebelliousness. Exercise of humaneness alone results in weakness.
Fixation on trust results in folly. Dependence on the strength of
courage results in violence. Excessive discipline and sternness in
command result in cruelty. When one has all five virtues together,
each appropriate to its function, then one can be a leader.
-Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu's Art of War originally was intended to be read as a work of
military strategy and philosophy. Yet even today, more than 2,000
years later, Sun Tzu's description of the traits that characterize a
successful leader is valid in any arena-war, politics, business, and
any endeavor that requires the ability to inspire and mobilize the
efforts of a group in the service of a common goal.
Taking Sun Tzu's categories as a point of departure, this book is
divided into five sections, each one containing ... read full excerpt from: The 100 Greatest Leadership Principles of All Time ebook
