Leadership skills are essential for any aspiring manager, and there are no
better guides to those skills than the actions and words of great leaders
themselves: Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great and Napoleon; Churchill, Charles
de Gaulle and Abraham Lincoln; Field Marshalls Slim and Montgomery; and many
more. In "Effective Leadership Masterclass "John Adair, one of the world's
foremost experts on leadership training, describes the lessons every manager can
learn from the great leaders of the past and how you can apply them to your own
management methods. In addition to dealing with more wide-ranging issues, such
as whether knowledge and experience are enough to make someone