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A novel, intriguing-and more importantly-highly instructive procedure enabling us to truly grasp fundamental management rules. In the individual of Dwight Eisenhower planning and performing the D-Day landings and the subsequent liberation of European countries, these basic ideas are vividly taken to life. As Loftus rightly observes, no CEO ever faced a far more overwhelming, pressure-filled, obstacle-laden quest than performed Ike. Perfect reading for these turbulent times. -Steve Forbes, Chairman & CEO, Forbes Press
Geoff Loftus has written an interesting and highly useful booklet on Dwight Eisenhowers incredible potential as a innovator. If you liked Ike before, youll like him even more now. And youll be pleased to Geoff Loftus. -Christopher Buckley, author of Boomsday and Thank You for Smoking
In Business lead Like Ike, Geoff Loftus provides enthusiastic insights on management lessons attracted from one of the greatest battlefields in military background. The lessons can happen simple, but its the simplest management principles that people often neglect: Listen to your people. Established your perspective. Be constant about your concept. Let your managers manage. -Salvatore J. Vitale, Older Vice President, The Conference Mother board
Who was the greatest CEO of the 20th century? A persuasive case can be produced for General Dwight D. Ike Eisenhower, who undertook historys most harrowing professional assignment: Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied European countries on June 6, 1944. In Business lead Like Ike, business journalist and marketing communications expert Geoff Loftus weaves a fly on-the-wall narrative from Ikes point of view as supreme allied commander overseeing the Normandy invasion. While swept into a gripping tale that honors the sacrifice of most who fought and passed on on D-Day, youll also be attracted to a cache of battle-tested strategies and practices with immediate applications to modern-day business leadership.