This is one of Booklists top 10 business books of 2002 and a BusinessWeekNew York Times Wall Street Journal and USA Today business bestseller.Management profess... » 

This is one of Booklists top 10 business books of 2002 and a BusinessWeekNew York Times Wall Street Journal and USA Today business bestseller.Management professor Oren Harari adopts Colin Powells rise into the upperranks of American power as a model for decision makers in the private sector.Harari hails Powells character as the essence of a host of supple executivevirtues from defining and defending rational objectives to playing theprovocateur against outdated modes of boardroom thinking. The WashingtonPost. Powell appears to be a natural born leader with an intuitive sense ofstrategy for advancement in war and politics. For those of us who are not solucky to have such diplomacy inherently Hararis book can teach us how to leadeffectively following Powells example. USA Today. This is a battletested leadership book and although the author has shown how to apply theseprinciples in the corporate venue you dont have to be a CEO to benefit fromthe words and wisdom of Colin Powell. Booklist. «