Cigars, Whisky, & Winning Leadership Lessons from General Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant was a perceptive and surprisingly modern manager, who learned from his own and others' successes and failures. He was adept at seizing and exploiting opportunities as they presented themselves. Kaltman uses Grant's military career, beginning with his enrollment at West Point through his early successes in the Civil War to his eventual command of the entire Union Army, to illustrate 250 basic principles of business success, from "Bureaucrats do the dumbest things" to "You can't stop the clock." In an afterword, Kaltman considers how President Grant failed to live up to the principles of teamwork and planning that led General Grant to victory, with a resultant career as chief executive whose legacy has been less than stellar.