There are many times in life when one can feel overwhelmed by the tasks that lie before them. This has been so for time immemorial, and perhaps the best way of escaping this feeling is to take the example of successful people that have preceded you. John Man, in his book The Leadership Secrets of Genghis Khan, gives any struggling leaders or bosses that opportunity by taking an in-depth look at the elements of Khan's mentality and personality that led to him controlling the largest area of land in history...
The Leadership Secrets of Genghis Khan
By: John Man
Biography
John Man is a historian and travel writer with a special interest in Mongolia and China. His other books include, The Gutenberg Revolution on the origins and impact of printing, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Kublai Khan, The Terracotta Army and The Great Wall.
Synopsis
Genghis Khan has a very strong claim to be the greatest leader the world has ever seen. As a teenager he was an outcast, fleeing enemies on a mountain in northern Mongolia, an exile, a nobody. Yet it took only twenty years for Genghis to build the largest land empire in history: four times the size of Alexander’s, twice the size of Rome’s. How did he do it? What lessons does his life reveal about the nature of leadership? What is “greatness” in leadership? What traits did Genghis possess exactly? Might they apply in other times and other places — even here and today?
John Man re-examines the life of Genghis Khan to discover the qualities, characteristics and strategies that made him the great leader that he was. The answers are sometimes surprising. Far from being just the tyrant that history records, he was a leader of exceptional vision and modernity. And many of the secrets of his success are as useful in today’s competitive business world as they were in rallying the Mongol hordes.
