Donald T Phillips
Bestselling Author
The Founding Fathers On Leadership
Classic Teamwork in Changing Times
The Founding Fathers on Leadership takes you into the world of “team leaders” Thomas Paine, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison as they mapped strategy, forged consensus, picked the right staff people - such heretofore unproven talents as Lafayette and John Paul Jones - and made crucial decisions and daring choices. From Washington’s recapture of Boston - achieved through intimidating, outmaneuvering, and outsmarting the British - to Benjamin Franklin’s pivotal mission to Paris in search of a strategic alliance, Donald T. Phillips shows how these men faced challenges and dissension in their own ranks with an enlightened vision from which they would not stray. And just as risk-taking entrepreneurs on the business battlefield today must learn to consolidate their gains, the Founding Fathers faced fierce new battles after they had won the War of Independence, leading to the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
A book that is as entertaining as it is insightful, The Founding Fathers on Leadership demonstrates some of the essential maxims for successful leadership and teamwork, such as rally every member of the organization to one common cause; turn an unsuccessful event into a clarion call for action; act as an agent of change for the people you manage; and pass the torch of leadership to the next generation. A profile of the great American success story in the making, this is a book that will inspire you to make your own American success story come true today.
Product Details
- ISBN: 0446674257
- ISBN-13: 9780446674256
- Format: Paperback, 272pp
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
- Pub. Date: November 1998
Quotes
These are the times that try men’s souls!
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Thomas Paine
To form a just idea, it would be necessary to be on the spot.
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George Washington
We hold these truths to be self-evident.
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Thomas Jefferson
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
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Benjamin Franklin
We should invite the people to erect the whole building with their
own hands, upon the broadest foundation. . . . For the people are
the source of all authority and power.
– John Adams
Endorsements
Every member of Congress should have a copy of this book and study it carefully.
- Mary Matalin
The best leadership book I’ve ever read. It has revolutionized my approach to leadership in sports.
- Pat Williams, Orlando Magic
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