New Book Review: "Leading the Charge"
New book review for Leading the Charge: Leadership Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom, by General Tony Zinni and Tony Koltz, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009:
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The authors walk the reader through, provide insights to, and discuss possible solutions to some of the many pressing leadership challenges of the new century, with much focus placed on the changes that have taken place in the world following the end of the Cold War twenty years ago. From the perspective of Tony Zinni, who has leadership in the realms of military, diplomacy, and business, the manner in which systems and organizations operate has changed, and due to a variety of factors a new and different archetype of leader needs to emerge in order to be effective.
Zinni explains that much of the substance for this book had its origins attempting to answer questions from book tour audiences for his earlier work called "The Battle for Peace". In that book, Zinni explained how the world had changed since 1989. It was frequently inquired whether a different type of leaderhip is now needed, and after initially answering to the effect that "the principles of good leadership are timeless and continue to apply", he realized that "these people are telling [him] something, not asking [him] something…they're out there in the trenches where they're seeing failing or ineffective leadership, and they're wondering if this is just a bad patch of bad leaders or something more serious".