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Battle Tested!: Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders
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About Battle Tested!: Gettysburg Leadership Lessons For
Product Description You may never visit the Gettysburg battlefield, but understanding historic lessons from Battle Tested! will have a profound influence on not only your leadership abilities, but also your life, organizations, and career. In order to be a truly effective leader, it is necessary to learn as much as possible from the examples of history—the disasters as well as the triumphs. At Gettysburg, Union and Confederate commanders faced a series of critical leadership challenges under the enormous stress of combat. The fate of the nation hung in the balance. These leaders each responded in different ways, but the concepts and principles they applied during those traumatic three days contain critical lessons for today’s leaders that are both useful and applicable—whether those leaders manage operations at a large corporation, supervise a public institution, lead an athletic team, or govern a state or municipality. In the twenty-first century, leadership is the indispensable quality that separates successful organizations from failures. Successful leaders communicate vision, motivate team members, and inspire trust. One must move both people and the collective organization into the future while, at the same time, dealing with the past. A leader must learn to master the dynamic requirements of decision-making and change. Review “Battle Tested! uses one of the greatest crises in the history of the nation—the Battle of Gettysburg—to illustrate leadership concepts and principles that are enduring. The lessons from this book are as applicable to modern leaders as they were in 1863. Every leader will find it not only an engrossing read but an invaluable contribution to their professional library.” -- Admiral Jim Stavridis, US Navy, Supreme Allied Commander at NATO (2009–2013) and Dean, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (2013–2018) “ Battle Tested! provides an exceptional leadership education in a contextualized format, the Battle of Gettysburg, making the lessons learned both powerful and relevant for every reader. This is the exact style of leadership book that needs to be shared with teams, colleagues, even family members. Not only does it offer a refreshed definition of leadership, but one that can be applied in both everyday business environments and leading in crisis scenarios.” -- Angie Morgan, Captain, USMC and Author of Leading from the Front and the New York Times Bestselling Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success “Many books have been written on leadership, even more on military history, and a few have combined the two. But rare are those that have so successfully mined the historical record to extract valuable leadership lessons as Battle Tested!. Jeff McCausland has combined his experience as a scholar, his own battle-tested career as a military officer and his years of studying America’s most consequential battle to provide us with contemporary business lessons. Not only a riveting civil war history of the Battle of Gettysburg, but also a present-day primer on how to lead in uncertain times, Battle Tested! rewards careful reading and demands a very wide audience.” -- Ambassador Mitchell Reiss, former President and CEO of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation “ Jeff McCausland and Tom Vossler masterfully combine the historical analysis of the Battle of Gettysburg with the leadership lessons learned for modern day leaders. Battle Tested! captures hundreds of leadership moments and messages from the Battle of Gettysburg and describes them in such a way that they become relevant and as powerful today as they were during that time in our history. Once you read this book you will understand that leadership is everyone’s job, but it begins with you.” -- Kent Bechler, Executive Leadership Coach “ A timely, practical, historical and most importantly, wonderful opportunity for real thinking, discussing and learning. Jeff and Tom use their years of both hands-on lead
