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Throughout history, market leaders have used solitude as a subject of course. Eisenhower published memoranda to himself during World Warfare II in an effort to think through complex problems. Martin Luther Ruler found moral courage while sitting down by themselves at his dining room table one night during the Montgomery bus boycott. Jane Goodall used her intuition in the jungles of Central Africa while learning how to overcome chimps. Solitude is circumstances of mind, an area where you can concentrate on your own thoughts without distraction, with a power to bring brain and soul together in clear-eyed conviction. Just like a great wave that saturates everything in its way, however, handheld devices and other marketing now leave us awash with the thoughts of others. Our company is dropping solitude without even noticing it. To find solitude today, a head must make a mindful effort. This reserve explains why your time and effort is useful and how to make it. Through gripping historical accounts and firsthand interviews with a wide range of contemporary market leaders, Raymond Kethledge (a federal government courtroom of appeals judge) and Michael Erwin (a West Pointer and three-tour combat veteran) show how solitude can boost clarity, spur ingenuity, sustain emotional balance, and make the moral courage necessary to conquer adversity and criticism. Anyone who leads anyone - including oneself - can benefit from solitude. Which has a foreword by Jim Collins (writer of the best seller Good to Great), Lead Yourself First is a rallying cry to reclaim solitude - and all the benefits, both practical and sublime, that come with it.
