|Waterloo | Two Styles of Leadership| It offers the engaging
idea that major historical events are so redolent of the
pressures faced in business today that a great deal can be
learned from studying history in a modern context. While Frank
Steer and Diana Vermeulen consider the perspective of the
criteria for business excellence as a framework for evaluating
leadership, their central focus is on the opposing leadership
styles of the two forces. Join Frank and Diana as they lead you
around the battlefield at Waterloo to examine the reasons why
all did not go to plan, and to evaluate how the personalities of
the various leaders had such a profound impact on events. The
personalities studied will not only be those of Napoleon and
Wellington -- two men just three months apart in age but a
lifetime apart in background and character -- but also Blucher
and Ney, and Grouchy and Soult. Frank's knowledge of the
military events at Waterloo and his interpretation of them into
modern management beliefs and standards is u