The earliest theory of leadership was aptly referred to as 'The Great Man Theory'. It proposed that great leaders were born so and were larger-than-life figures who wrote history with the pen, the sword, with voice and...
The 18th century historian and British Parliamentarian Edward Gibbon provides one of the deepest insights into leadership success, almost in passing, as he describes an encounter between Christian crusaders and Ottoman Turks in The History of the...
