Three men bent history by sheer force of vision and execution. They left a record of exactly how.
Most books about Alexander, Caesar, and Napoleon either glorify the conquest or reduce it to a few war-room maxims. You have read those books. You can tell a fact from a slogan, and you have no patience for hype or hero worship. This one is built for you. It treats Napoleon Bonaparte, Julius Caesar, and Alexander the Great not as statues to admire but as case studies in how a person wants more than is reasonable, sees a situation whole and fast, and turns decision into motion before anyone can react.
These were not good men, and the book keeps saying so. They left mountains of dead behind their achievements, and nothing here pretends otherwise. But the working methods underneath the conquest can be lifted out of the wars and put to use in an ordinary life, pointed at something better than they pointed them at. From three men separated by centuries and temperament, the method underneath the temperament is what travels to you.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Three men bent history by sheer force of vision and execution. They left a record of exactly how. Most books about Alexander, Caesar, and Napoleon either glorify the conquest or reduce it to a few war-room maxims. You have read those books. You can tell a fact from a slogan, and you have no patience for hype or hero worship. This one is built for you. It treats Napoleon Bonaparte, Julius Caesar, and Alexander the Great not as statues to admire but as case studies in how a person wants more than is reasonable, sees a situation whole and fast, and turns decision into motion before anyone can react. These were not good men, and the book keeps saying so. They left mountains of dead behind their achievements, and nothing here pretends otherwise. But the working methods underneath the conquest can be lifted out of the wars and put to use in an ordinary life, pointed at something better than they pointed them at. From three men separated by centuries and temperament, the method underneath the temperament is what travels to you. Inside this book: Why the size of your ambition is built, not inherited, and how to enlarge it on purposeHow to find the one decisive point and concentrate everything thereWhy speed is a strategy, and how to judge a calculated risk by the bet rather than the outcomeHow to close the gap between deciding and moving, and how to know when to stopOne small, testable practice at the end of every chapter, scaled to an ordinary weekThis is for readers of Robert Greene, Ryan Holiday, and serious popular history who want the lessons made operational, not preachy. It hedges the legends, names the atrocities plainly, and insists on the moral limit these men lacked. No glorified violence, no quick hacks, no filler. Read it not for inspiration, which evaporates, but for instruction, which compounds. Then point it at something worth building. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9798180777324
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Three men bent history by sheer force of vision and execution. They left a record of exactly how. Most books about Alexander, Caesar, and Napoleon either glorify the conquest or reduce it to a few war-room maxims. You have read those books. You can tell a fact from a slogan, and you have no patience for hype or hero worship. This one is built for you. It treats Napoleon Bonaparte, Julius Caesar, and Alexander the Great not as statues to admire but as case studies in how a person wants more than is reasonable, sees a situation whole and fast, and turns decision into motion before anyone can react. These were not good men, and the book keeps saying so. They left mountains of dead behind their achievements, and nothing here pretends otherwise. But the working methods underneath the conquest can be lifted out of the wars and put to use in an ordinary life, pointed at something better than they pointed them at. From three men separated by centuries and temperament, the method underneath the temperament is what travels to you. Inside this book: - Why the size of your ambition is built, not inherited, and how to enlarge it on purpose- How to find the one decisive point and concentrate everything there- Why speed is a strategy, and how to judge a calculated risk by the bet rather than the outcome- How to close the gap between deciding and moving, and how to know when to stop- One small, testable practice at the end of every chapter, scaled to an ordinary week>Read it not for inspiration, which evaporates, but for instruction, which compounds. Then point it at something worth building. Codice articolo 9798180777324
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Three men bent history by sheer force of vision and execution. They left a record of exactly how. Most books about Alexander, Caesar, and Napoleon either glorify the conquest or reduce it to a few war-room maxims. You have read those books. You can tell a fact from a slogan, and you have no patience for hype or hero worship. This one is built for you. It treats Napoleon Bonaparte, Julius Caesar, and Alexander the Great not as statues to admire but as case studies in how a person wants more than is reasonable, sees a situation whole and fast, and turns decision into motion before anyone can react. These were not good men, and the book keeps saying so. They left mountains of dead behind their achievements, and nothing here pretends otherwise. But the working methods underneath the conquest can be lifted out of the wars and put to use in an ordinary life, pointed at something better than they pointed them at. From three men separated by centuries and temperament, the method underneath the temperament is what travels to you. Inside this book: Why the size of your ambition is built, not inherited, and how to enlarge it on purposeHow to find the one decisive point and concentrate everything thereWhy speed is a strategy, and how to judge a calculated risk by the bet rather than the outcomeHow to close the gap between deciding and moving, and how to know when to stopOne small, testable practice at the end of every chapter, scaled to an ordinary weekThis is for readers of Robert Greene, Ryan Holiday, and serious popular history who want the lessons made operational, not preachy. It hedges the legends, names the atrocities plainly, and insists on the moral limit these men lacked. No glorified violence, no quick hacks, no filler. Read it not for inspiration, which evaporates, but for instruction, which compounds. Then point it at something worth building. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9798180777324
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