The master of leadership and teaching leadership is John Maxwell. His insight and how well he explains it, are masterful. If you aspire to being a leader now or in the future, pick up this book and read it, take notes, read it again, and again.
What would happen if a leadership expert were willing to distill everything he's learned in his 30+ years of experience into a handful of life-changing principles just for you? It would change your life.
Internationally-recognized leadership expert and bestselling author John C. Maxwell wrote his million-seller The 21 Laws of Leadership over ten years ago. Now, this expanded and updated edition of one of the most trusted and referenced leadership books features revised content that is fundamental to any leader.
Maxwell provides new learnings that makes his original bestseller bigger and better including:
This is a book about the U.S. Paratroopers and the fight to save D-Day. If you wanted to see what sacrifice is all about, read about the American paratroopers who jumped into Normandy on D-Day.
Of the nearly 15,000 Allied paratroopers dropped into France on D–14 (two weeks before D–Day), only one regiment––the 3,000 men of the 505 Parachute Infantry––had been tested in battle, and so they were given the toughest mission. For a few critical days, while the fate of occupied Europe hung in the balance, these troopers held their ground against savage assaults. In doing so, they changed the course of World War II.
Within hours of landing in Normandy, the paratroopers of the 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment had gathered in the darkened fields outside Ste. Mere Eglise and moved rapidly to the…
If you want to know what the most important element of successful leadership is, then read this book. The answer is "character," and this book is all about character.
Our decision to go to war in Iraq was controversial, but our decision to terminate the Iraq war was even more controversial. After eight and a half years of war, and the sacrifice of 4,614 Americans, it is critical that we as a Nation understand how this war terminated, and study the lessons learned so that we do not have to re-learn it all over again in the next war. This book is about the 2011 drawdown in Iraq, which created numerous unintended consequences that failed to align with our strategic objectives of what we wanted to leave behind and what Iraq would become as an important partner nation within the Middle East region.
This book will walk you through the sequence of events from 9/11, which includes the decision to go to war in Iraq, the surge in northern Iraq, President Obama's decision to withdrawal, the original plans for a residual force, the departure of Multi-National Forces-Iraq (MNF-I) and the circumstances of the immediate aftermath, and the significant strategy changes by the Department of State. It will detail what occurred from not only the U.S. Embassy's perspective, but also from each of our government's departments and agencies, as well as from multiple Iraqi perspectives. It will show how the polarization of the Sunnis and the Kurds by Prime Minister Malaki immediately after the U.S. withdrawal led to the disenfranchised Sunni's who provided safe-haven for a resurrected radical Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which created a caliphate that ultimately led to the return of U.S. forces working with the Iraqi military to defeat ISIS and their caliphate. It studies the Kurd and Arab issues over time and OSC-I's efforts to continue to resolve differences through dialogue and negotiation. It also highlights Iranian influence on key Iraqi leadership, as well as its impact on the OSC-I mission.
This is a book scholars and military professionals should study. It is a book that our legislative elected officials will want to read to understand the privileges and authorities that must be legislated for successful transitions out of war. And it is a book that interagency partners and national security authorities should study to understand the interagency teamwork necessary to transition U.S. government departments from war, to war termination.
