The reflective leader: A major lesson from the memoirs of U.S. Grant
Grant's memoirs show that self-awareness and honest reflection are crucial to leadership
By Thomas E. Ricks | December 1, 2017, 10:15 AM
I recently went to Amazon’s book section and found, to my surprise, that it offers 23 different biographies of Ulysses Grant. One of those biographies stood out. It offered strikingly unique insights into leadership because it was written by Grant himself. The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant provides leadership lessons that can be obtained nowhere else.
Civil War histories and Grant biographies give the impression that one of Grant’s most valuable qualities was his relative imperturbability. The fact that he did not get agitated during the course of the war was a characteristic noticed by many of his subordinates. Sherman would always remember Grant’s steadiness after that first horrible day at Shiloh.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/12/01/the-reflective-leader-a-major-lesson-from-the-memoirs-of-u-s-grant/
