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Following his BusinessWeek bestsellers Elizabeth I, CE O and Patton on Leadership comes a new and perfect subject for Alan Axelrod’s innovative format: Winston Churchill, the quintessential leader of the 20th century. Churchill skillfully converted crisis into victory, making the boldest of visions seem attainable; even though he sometimes failed audaciously, he embraced his errors and used them to become stronger. Axelrod looks at this much-studied figure in a way nobody has before: he explores 25 key facets of Churchill’s leadership style and decision-making from his early years as a junior cavalry officer and journalist to his role throughout WWII and demonstrates how he was able to overcome near-impossible obstacles. Fluidly and engagingly written, each lesson is enlivened with a vivid vignette from Churchill’s life. As always, Axelrod’s penetrating analysis will instruct, inspire, and encourage those who lead business enterprises, large and small. Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In the hands of a lesser writer, this story of Churchill's brilliant career could have been muted by the business-book treatment; fortunately, Churchill's forceful personality takes center stage and the (surprisingly unforced) lessons he inspires appear in sidebars inconspicuously peppered throughout 25 chapters. Prolific author Axelrod (Elizabeth I, CEO) presents a clear synopsis of Churchill's life, focusing on his climb to prominence and WWII leadership, and well-shored with quotes from a vast store of writings and speeches. Churchill's early career is mined for lessons in pragmatism (All true leadership is practical leadership); Churchill's personal visits to the war front highlight the leader's need and respect for the unvarnished truth (sugared words are an addictive drug). Other topics include partners, defiance, hardship, conscience, uncertainty and rhetoric: Churchill remained wary of words' hollowness the instant they were divorced from reality. As thorough a biographer as he is a business thinker, Axelrod even gets in a lesson on logos derived from Churchill's famous V-for-Victory sign. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. A study of the leadership style of the incomparable Winston Churchill, by an author who is “as thorough a biographer as he is a business thinker” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The quintessential twentieth-century leader Winston Churchill skillfully converted crisis into victory, making the boldest of visions seem attainable; even though he sometimes failed audaciously, he embraced his errors and used them to become stronger. In this book, historian Alan Axelrod looks at this much-studied figure in a way nobody has before: He explores 25 key facets of Churchill's leadership style and decision-making from his early years as a junior cavalry officer and journalist to his role throughout WWII, and demonstrates how he was able to overcome near-impossible obstacles. Fluidly and engagingly written, each lesson is enlivened with a vivid vignette from Churchill's life. As always, Axelrod's penetrating analysis will instruct, inspire, and encourage those who lead business enterprises and other organizations, large and small. Following his BusinessWeek bestsellers Elizabeth I, CE O and Patton on Leadership comes a new and perfect subject for Alan Axelrods innovative Winston Churchill, the quintessential leader of the 20th century. Churchill skillfully converted crisis into victory, making the boldest of visions seem attainable; even though he sometimes failed audaciously, he embraced his errors and used them to become stronger. Axelrod looks at this much-studied figure in a way nobody has he explores 25 key facets of Churchills leadership style and decision-making from his early years as a junior cavalry officer and journalist to his role throughout WWII and demonstrates how he was able to overcome near-impossible obstacles. Fluidly and engagingly written, each lesson is enlivened with a vivid vignette from Churchills life. As always, Axelrods penetrating analysis will instruct, inspire, and encourage those who lead business enterprises, large and small. Examines Winston Churchill, the quintessential leader of the 20th Century from a different angle. This title explores 25 key facets of his leadership style and decision-making. It reveals how Churchill skillfully converted crisis into victory.