“If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.” IfsLeadershipAnimalStepsPrideMountainHighestAnthropologySwallowing Book:Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Source: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
“The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.” IfsFirstsSelfDifficultPrideKeysAngerManagementDefeatLionsMasterySelf ControlAnger ManagementWrestler Author:Jack Weatherford
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated merchants or wealthy planters, had been founded by one of its illiterate slaves, who, by sheer force of personality, charisma, and determination, liberated America from foreign rule, united the people, created an alphabet, wrote the constitution, established universal religious freedom, invented a new system of warfare, marched an army from Canada to Brazil, and opened roads of commerce in a free-trade zone that stretched across the continents.” PeopleIfsStatesMightAmericaForceTermReligiousUnitedUnited StatesGroupsPersonalityUnderstoodDeterminationUniversalConstitutionArmyTradeSlaveEducatedAccomplishmentCanadaZoneWealthyContinentsCommerceWarfareSheerLiberatedMerchantsReligious FreedomBrazilCharismaAlphabetIlliterateFree TradePlantersTrade Zone Author:Jack Weatherford