This book is not a leadership manual, but an effort to remedy the inadequacies of leadership manuals. Peter Drucker once referred to Xenophon's The Education of Cyrus as "Still the greatest book on leadership," and he made a very good point. Over many years, I have become convinced that a book like Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, on his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, or Simon Schama's Citizens, on the French Revolution, will teach you more about human nature and motivation, human perversity and potential, and therefore leadership, than any of the thousands of business leadership texts...