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The Churchill Factors: Creating Your Finest Hour
by Larry Kryske
230 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #00-0124; ISBN 1-55212-459-2; US$23.00, C$27.95, EUR18.20, £12.60
This readable book reveals how people can apply the leadership wisdom of Winston Churchill to enhance the quality of their personal and professional lives.
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About the BookMost people look at a towering leader like Winston Churchill and see a life full of extraordinary achievements. Few, however, realize that his road to greatness was neither straight nor smooth. He had to wage a constant battle with defeats, setbacks, obstacles, and even depression. Churchillís ability to bounce back from difficulties and problems can be traced to a simple formula for success that he practiced his entire life. Using the Churchill Factors - Churchillís best practices involving Leadership - the reader will learn how to: achieve heroic results, harness relentless resolve, and turn adversity into advantage.
The reader will also learn proven strategies for: communicating more effectively, achieving powerful goals, sustaining encouragement in times of trial, building self-esteem, using simplicity and risk to ones advantage, and experiencing a richer, fuller, more productive life. Here's what people are saying about THE CHURCHILL FACTORS
"When it comes to courage and leadership, the name of Winston Churchill shall forever be etched in the minds and hearts of all people who know history and cherish freedom. In THE CHURCHILL FACTORS author and speaker Larry Kryske shares these same principles that we can use to enhance our own lives. This illuminating and compelling book is destined to make a difference in people's lives."
"THE CHURCHILL FACTORS is an important tool for current and future leaders wanting to apply the wisdom of the greatest leader of the Twentieth Century."
"Awesome book! Churchill overcame overwhelming obstacles to become a great leader. THE CHURCHILL FACTORS can help anyone unlock the secrets of creating his or her finest hour."
"Winston Churchill is without a doubt one of the great leaders of all time from whom we can learn a great deal. We are truly fortunate to have Larry Kryske, a man of character, teach us about the wisdom of Winston Churchill."
"People from all walks of life, including industry, education, business, professional, and government, can benefit from reading and adopting the tenets of this extraordinary book. There is a gold mine of nuggets to be unearthed by the reader."
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About the AuthorLarry Kryske is a respected authority on the life of Sir Winston Churchill. He has served on the Board of Directors of the International Churchill Society. Larry combines over thirty-five years of Churchill study with over thirty years of worldwide leadership and teamwork success. He is a certified trainer and seminar leader as well as a member of the National Speakers Association. A retired U.S. Navy commander, he holds a BA from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and a MS from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Larry is President and Co-founder of Homeport Training & Development. Click here to visit the author's web site HomeportSpeaking.com |
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Sample Excerpt
Introduction
This book can change your life! If you are looking for a way to get off the treadmill of frustration and despair and start living the life of your dreams, you have come to the right place. The message of hope contained in this book can propel you toward your dreams. It can help you create your finest hour.
The Churchill Factors is for the person who is pressed for time. You will not have to wade through laundry lists of leadership principles that are hard to remember. Instead, you will discover what really matters most about personal leadership and achieving your dreams. By keeping the ideas simple, practical, and timely, you will be able to apply these concepts right away.
This book uses Winston Churchill as a role model. Unlike most of the books about Churchill, this one will not bombard you with a large number of facts, figures, or analyses of his life. That is the job for biographers and historians. The Churchill Factors can more accurately be called "applied Churchill." You will learn about Churchill's best practices involving leadership as well as his proven strategies for success.
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
Goethe
The real value of history is not the knowledge itself, but rather the application of the knowledge to live a more productive and fulfilling life. The late Russell Kelfer perhaps said it best when he observed that, "When knowledge becomes personal, we have understanding. Applying this understanding yields wisdom." Thus, the goal of this book is not to give you knowledge about Churchill, but rather his understanding of life that he distilled into wisdom.
In his celebrated 1923 book, The Art Spirit, artist Robert Henri observed, "Simplicity is the soul of art." This belief can equally be applied to our lives. Simplicity is the soul of life! This does not imply that life is simple. Science and other disciplines have brought us an overabundance of information about every subject, including leadership and Churchill. Life is indeed complex, but if we can help other people to understand, and then apply, what they have learned, they will be able to benefit from this new understanding.
Many of today's historians seem preoccupied with denigrating the decisions and character of men like Churchill. It is truly unfortunate that these learned writers second-guess decisions made in the heat of battle and with imperfect knowledge while they have abundant, detailed information gleaned years after the events from all parties involved. These 20/20 hindsight commentators should be more humble! Therefore, three quotations will serve as our guide.
"Many of those who write about history like to seem wiser than those who made history."
David Howarth
"Both Lincoln and Churchill have not lacked their critics; the reputations of both seem likely to endure."
Maxwell Schoenfeld
"Criticism is easy; achievement is more difficult."
Winston Churchill
If we truly understand a subject, we can simplify it. The most complex processes can be broken down into the most basic components. Simplifying a subject allows us to see the forest as well as the trees. Look in any bookstore and you'll find shelves devoted to every facet of leadership. (That's because leadership is one of those topics that we recognize as vitally important to our survival, both in business and in our personal lives.) We can learn the leadership secrets of everyone from Attila the Hun to Abraham Lincoln to Captain Kirk of "Star Trek." We can find books about leadership that is invented, reinvented, visionary, strategic, servant, maximized, charismatic, innovative, intuitive, breakthrough, and enlightened. We can also have our leadership by the numbers - the seven habits, the fourteen points, the twenty-one irrefutable laws, or the hundred-and-one stories.
Before I go any further, do not misread my intentions. I firmly believe that every book on leadership has some value. In addition, I have personally benefited from reading, absorbing, and applying the nuggets found in the works of contemporary and classical thinkers.
I seek, however, to simplify leadership in much the same way a cartoonist simplifies the face and body of a noteworthy political figure. If you look at the work of some of the best cartoonists, you'll notice that they have captured the essence of their subject with just a few strategically-drawn lines. They could have reproduced their subject in faithful photographic detail. Instead, they portrayed only those most significant features that reminded the reader of the person.
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope."
Winston Churchill
Simplifying a subject like leadership means capturing its essence with as few brush strokes as possible. Each chapter in The Churchill Factors will give you tools you can use immediately. You won't have to master a great list of principles before you can apply them to the task at hand. Just as a hammer or screwdriver is a simple tool, the simple leadership insights in this book will let you get to work on your professional or personal life right away.
This book is intended for ALL people. There are leadership strengths and talents in every one of us! Executives, employees, homemakers, students - all can benefit from a methodology that can help us lead a richer, fuller, more productive life. If we can lead more complete lives at home, our time at work will be more productive. Similarly, if work becomes more satisfying, our life at home will be smoother. Thus, our professional and personal lives are directly related to each other. If one suffers, the other will ultimately suffer.
"The true task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, since the greatness is already there."
John Buchan
The world cries out for leaders. Where have all the leaders gone? The answer is: they're still here! Leadership potential resides in every one of us - every man, every woman, and every child. The potential is there, but sometimes it sits dormant, waiting for that critical moment of decision or crisis. The good news is that by using a simple formula for success, everyone can harness the power of leadership to create his or her finest hour.
