First published 2018
Retired four-star General Stanley McChrystal challenges how we think about leadership. He argues that great leaders succeed not through personality or individual brilliance but by building the right conditions around them. McChrystal examines figures across history and industries, from Alexander the Great to Mark Zuckerberg, Winston Churchill to Steve Jobs, Robert E. Lee to Harriet Tubman. He shows how each responded to comparable obstacles and what modern readers can extract from their methods. Drawing on his military academy training through corporate consulting work with the McChrystal Group, he constructs a new framework. The book demonstrates that effective leadership centers on the environment leaders create rather than their personal qualities.
Genres: business, politics, leadership, non-fiction, 21st-century, academic
Vibes: intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: leadership
Period: 19th-century, 20th-century, 21st-century
Paperback · Portfolio Penguin