by Jonathan Gifford | Oct 11, 2012 | Leadership Ideas
Diversity in any ecosystem is essential to its survival: the different adaptations displayed by various organisms within the system allow some of them to flourish when changing conditions condemn others to decline. The same principle applies to organisations,...
by Jonathan Gifford | Sep 9, 2012 | Leaders from History
In the West, the name of Genghis Khan still fills us with an almost instinctive dread. The Mongol horde emerged unexpectedly from the East, having conquered most of central Asia, northern China and Korea, and spread rapidly into the Middle East, Russia and...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jul 24, 2012 | Leaders from History
Mustafa Kemal created modern Turkey. He salvaged the nation from the wreckage of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War, when the ailing empire – ‘the sick man of Europe’ – was being carved up by the victorious allies. He achieved this...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jun 25, 2012 | Leaders from History
Horatio Nelson, who would become Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson as he was successively promoted and honoured by the Royal Navy and a grateful British nation, was a consummate leader of men. A brilliant strategist, politically well-informed and adept, he was always...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jun 25, 2012 | Reviews
I don’t normally give books bad reviews. This is because I only have time to read books about subjects that interest me, and there is nearly always something worth praising in the efforts of an author who has gone to the trouble of writing a book about a shared...
