by Jonathan Gifford | Mar 29, 2015 | Leaders from History
Below is a short biography of Lee Kuan Yew taken from my book History Lessons, which looks at the great leaders from history and explores what aspects of their leadership could be considered to have made them ‘great’. I came to the conclusion that the...
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
John Churchill, the ancestor of Britain’s wartime Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, rose from relative obscurity to become the first Duke of Marlborough and one of the richest men in England. He served five monarchs (Charles II, James II, William &...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jun 25, 2012 | Leaders from History
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord, known to history (thankfully) as ‘Talleyrand’, is the towering figure of late-eighteenth century diplomacy. A man who forged alliances with nation states in the attempt to prevent wars or to influence their outcome, and who...
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...
