Leadership Lessons From Churchill

Here are five leadership lessons that Paul Johnson draws from the life of Winston Churchill in his book Churchill.

• The first lesson is:  always aim high.
• Lesson number two is:  there is no substitute for hard work.
• Third, and in its way most important, Churchill never allowed mistakes, disaster--personal or national--accidents, illnesses, unpopularity, and criticism to get him down.
• Fourth, Churchill wasted an extraordinarily small amount of his time and emotional energy on the meannesses of life:  recrimination, shifting the blame onto others, malice, revenge seeking, dirty tricks, spreading rumors, harboring grudges, waging vendettas.  
• Finally, the absence of hatred left plenty of room for joy in Churchill's life.

These are just of few of the nuggets in Johnson's book.  It is short, only 166 pages, and well-written.  I commend it to you.