{"product_id":"scuttle-your-ships-before-advancing-and-other-lessons-from-history-on-leadership-and-change-for-todays-managers-9780195096422","title":"Scuttle Your Ships before Advancing: And Other Lessons from History on Leadership and Change for Today's Managers","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the spring of 1942  Japans Admiral Yamamoto devised an ingenious strategy to attack Midway Island and deliver the knockout punch of the war in the Pacific. His elegant operational plan--which involved elaborate traps and diversions and required clockwork coordination--was founded on complete faith that he could predict the Americans every move. But the perfect plan went wrong  and Japans elite Strike Force was crushed  losing four carriers  over three hundred aircraft  and 2 500 men. What can todays business managers learn from Yamamotos stunning defeat at the Battle of Midway? A great deal  according to Richard Luecke  and in Scuttle Your Ships Before Advancing  he illuminates lessons to be learned from Yamamoto and other leaders who have faced memorable crises. We find  for instance  the epitome of decisiveness and entrepreneurialism in Hernan Cortes  as he and a small band of 16th-century adverturers risked everything in a bold gamble for the Aztec empire (the books title  Scuttle Your Ships  refers to Cortes strategy that kept his men moving forward). Underdogs who would challenge the status quo can look to Frances Louis XI  the \"Spider King \" and learn how he undermined entrenched rivals through patience and cunning. The Emperor Hadrian  in his consolidation of the sprawling Roman Empire  provides a brilliant model for managing todays multinational corporation. And attitudes toward technology and innovation are vividly illustrated by the 15th-century Battle of Agincourt  in which the stubborn refusal of the French to adopt their English enemys weapon--the longbow--led to their massacre. From these and other historical episodes  Luecke shows how leadership  daring  and artful administration meant the difference between success and failure. He draws explicit lessons for managers from these long-ago events  and he also reveals parallels in the recent experiences of major corporations from GM to Shearson Lehman. And along the way  he evokes portraits of Martin Luther  W. Edwards Deming  and other visionaries as they struggled with the timeless challenges of authority  change  and human conflict. Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. Skillfully narrated  inspiring yet down-to-earth  Scuttle Your Ships Before Advancing serves up powerful historical lessons for all who would manage and lead in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647072198709,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195096428","price":36.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195096422.jpg?v=1781687641","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/scuttle-your-ships-before-advancing-and-other-lessons-from-history-on-leadership-and-change-for-todays-managers-9780195096422","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}