Sailing True North Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character

I felt this subject needed that great sweep of history.

it's really not so much a leadership book it's a book about character and a way to think about this is leadership is how we influence others it's that big door swinging that causes you to make other people want to follow you that's leadership but that big door of leadership Jordan swings on the small hinge of character that's buried in your heart.

I wanted to talk about that small hinge in the human heart and to find ten good stories it took me twenty five hundred years of looking at different add girls.

I think we're overweight in thinking about leadership and underweight in thinking about character.

that's why I did the book.

it's really not so much a leadership book it's a book about character

leadership is how we influence others it's that big door swinging that causes you to make other people want to follow you that's leadership but that big door of leadership Jordan swings on the small hinge of character that's buried in your heart

I wanted to talk about that small hinge in the human heart and to find ten good stories it took me twenty five hundred years of looking at different add girls

we're overweight in thinking about leadership and underweight and thinking about character

we're overweight and leadership and underweight and character

And I've loved and I've recommended before Adam Rowe James, Stavritis' wonderful book, Sailing True North.

He was a leader. He was someone who always sailed true north as a title of one of my previous books would

And please read his other books, Sailing True North.

I've read his fantastic book, Sailing True North, Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character by Admiral James Stevertus. And it's just a fascinating book.

I learned a ton from this book. I learned a ton from talking to him and we just really get into it.

I think you will love this book, Sailing True North, Ten Admirals and The Voyage of Character. It's a great diverse interesting list.

I wanted to start with the subtitle of Sailing True North, this idea of The Voyage of Character.

So the Greeks have this expression character is fate, right? Sort of who you are determines what you're going to do.

His most recent book, Sailing True North, dissects the characteristics of some of history's greatest naval leaders.

I just wrote a book called Sailing True North, 10 Admirals and the Voyage of Character and I profiled 10 historical admirals going back 2,500 years.