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No beautiful secretaries, no pre-packaged rations, no cars or fluttering pennants . . . no military bands. But victory, damn it, victory!33
Robert C. Townsend • Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits (J-B Warren Bennis Series)
Douglas MacArthur is one of those blips in history, an idiosyncratic figure who, for reasons hard to satisfactorily explain, acquired far more power than he had any reason to. In the United States in the mid-twentieth century, there were three such men, each operating on a different scale. On the level of the city, there was Robert Moses, who someh
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John Boyd, a sort of warrior-monk who revolutionized Western military strategy in the latter half of the twentieth century,
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By the time I was deployed as McChrystal’s aide-de-camp, he was entering his fifth year of command, and it was clear that something was working.
Chris Fussell, C. W. Goodyear, General Stanley McChrystal (Foreword) • One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams
“He operated behind the scenes, so to speak,” Mac Conner wrote. “The general public was and is unaware of his value to the military and to the country … his true legacy stretched far beyond his own wonderful military career.”
Steven Rabalais • General Fox Conner: Pershing's Chief of Operations and Eisenhower's Mentor (The Generals Book 3)
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
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Face-to-face interaction with others is closely correlated with trust and quality of relationship formation.