When Napoleon's Glance was first published last spring, former NATO secretary general and now putative presidential candidate Wesley Clark declared, "This is a very important book." In Napoleon's Glance strategist William Duggan shows how Clark, along with ten other important figures in the fields of politics, war and culture, owed their success to coup d'oeil. But what is coup d'oeil? Carl von Clausewitz spent twenty years struggling to pin down the genius of Napoleon. In chapter six of what would become "On War" he discovered the secret of Napoleon's strategy: Napoleon's glance. Clausewitz...
When Napoleon's Glance was first published last spring, former NATO secretary general and now putative presidential candidate Wesley Clark declared, "...
Over the past twenty years more citizens in China and India have raised themselves out of poverty than anywhere else at any time in history. They accomplished this through the local business sector--the leading source of prosperity for all rich countries. In most of Africa and other poor regions the business sector is weak, but foreign aid continues to fund government and NGOs. Switching aid to the local business sector in order to cultivate a middle class is the oldest, surest, and only way to eliminate poverty in poor countries. A bold fusion of ethics and smart business, The Aid...
Over the past twenty years more citizens in China and India have raised themselves out of poverty than anywhere else at any time in history. They acco...
William Duggan's 2007 book, Strategic Intuition, showed how innovation really happens in business and other fields and how that matches what modern neuroscience tells us about how creative ideas form in the human mind. In his new book, Creative Strategy, Duggan offers a step-by-step guide to help individuals and organizations put that same method to work for their own innovations. Duggan's book solves the most important problem of how innovation actually happens. Other methods of creativity, strategy, and innovation explain how to research and analyze a situation, but they...
William Duggan's 2007 book, Strategic Intuition, showed how innovation really happens in business and other fields and how that matches what mo...
In our military professions, formal analytical methods co-exist with intuitive decisionmaking by leaders in action. For the most part, there is no harm done. But many officers can recount times when they knew they should have "gone with their gut," but followed instead the results of their analytical methods. The gap between these two forms of decisionmaking perhaps has grown wider in recent times, especially in Iraq, where adaptive leadership seems to have overshadowed formal methods of planning. Departing from formal methods increasingly seems to be the mark of an effective commander, as we...
In our military professions, formal analytical methods co-exist with intuitive decisionmaking by leaders in action. For the most part, there is no har...
Flashes of insight--the "Eureka " moments that produce new and useful ideas in a single thought--are behind some of the world's most creative and practical innovations. This book shows how to cultivate more and better flashes of insight by harnessing the science and practice of the "seventh sense." Drawing from psychology, neuroscience, Asian philosophy, and military strategy, William Duggan illustrates the power of the seventh sense to help readers aspire to and achieve more in their personal and professional lives. His examples include Gandhi, Joan of Arc, Starbucks founder Howard...
Flashes of insight--the "Eureka " moments that produce new and useful ideas in a single thought--are behind some of the world's most creative and prac...
'They had now been travelling through England for fourteen days, and could get no information about any English force; nevertheless, an English army was assembled in a park nearby . . . ' In October 1346 the Scottish king David II, son of the celebrated Robert the Bruce, invaded England with as many as thirty-two thousand fighting men at his back. A companion to the Langley Press book The Battle of Neville's Cross, this volume is a compilation of some of the earliest historical sources for the battle, in fresh new modern English versions.
'They had now been travelling through England for fourteen days, and could get no information about any English force; nevertheless, an English army w...
In October 1346 the Scottish king David II invaded England with as many as thirty-two thousand men at his back. The outcome of the battle he was soon forced to fight at Neville's Cross outside Durham was to influence English, Scottish and Continental power-politics for centuries. This volume includes Simon Webb's 2016 account of the battle, its causes and its aftermath. It also includes a generous selection of the most important historical sources on the battle, some in modern English versions by Simon Webb and William Duggan. Previously published by the Langley Press as 'The Battle of...
In October 1346 the Scottish king David II invaded England with as many as thirty-two thousand men at his back. The outcome of the battle he was soon ...
