The Power of Four: Leadership Lessons of Crazy Horse

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What makes a good and true leader—brute power and force? The ability to persuade? Simply holding an influential position? Joseph M. Marshall III, the renowned creator of the bestselling The Lakota Way, says no. Reminding us that those who hold public administrative center are initially politicians, and that corporate bigwigs serve the base line, Marshall presents us with a different idea of leadership, one drawn from his own Lakota Sioux culture. “True leadership,” he informs us, “is only imaginable when character is more important than authority.”
Marshall III draws inspiration from three names that have resonated powerfully right through history to develop his unique concept of leadership: Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, and, especially Crazy Horse, whose fascinating life Marshall already chronicled in a biography that Publishers Weekly praised as “vivid and haunting.” Crazy Horse did not teach leadership; he simply demonstrated it, effectively and with compassion. Four factors stand out when taking a look at him as a leader, and they were the basis of his success:

Know yourself. Know your friends. Know the enemy. Paved the way.
 
The Power of Four shows how and why these maxims—and this Native American philosophy of leadership—is not just applicable to today’s world, but desperately needed: why leadership by example is more powerful than authority; and why the selection of leaders also becomes one way of controlling those very same leaders. Marshall will open readers’ eyes and assist them discover how to apply a new set of principles and actions to their own lives.

 


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