The Leadership Secrets of Genghis Khan

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What would Genghis have done? Lessons in leadership from historyx2019;s most successful (and ruthless) conqueror.Genghis Khan has a very strong claim to be the greatest leader the world has ever seen. As a teenager he was an outcast, fleeing enemies on a mountain in northern Mongolia, an exile, a nobody. Yet it took only twenty years for Genghis to build the largest land empire in history: four times the size of Alexanderx2019;s, twice the size of Romex2019;s. How did he do it? What lessons does his life reveal about the nature of leadership? What is x201C;greatnessx201D; in leadership? What traits did Genghis possess exactly? Might they apply in other times and other places x2014; even here and today?John Man re-examines the life of Genghis Khan to discover the qualities, characteristics and strategies that made him the great leader that he was. The answers are sometimes surprising. Far from being just the tyrant that history records, he was a leader of exceptional vision and modernity. And many of the secrets of his success are as useful in todayx2019;s competitive business world as they were in rallying the Mongol hordes.

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John Man is a historian and travel writer with a special interest in Mongolia and China. His other books include, The Gutenberg Revolution on the origins and impact of printing, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Kublai Khan, The Terracotta Army and The Great Wall.