Lessons from Napoleon IPaul Stathern's Napoleon in Egypt recounts Napoleon I's disastrous invasion of Egypt in 1798. In Napoleon on Project Management, Jerry Manas translates Napoleon's leadership skills into advice for today's business managers.
Both books are engaging and entertaining reads. Strathern's book is page-turner history and has a déjà vu quality given current events. Manas offers sound advice on how to avoid managing a company called "Waterloo, Inc."
By the way, the opening quote is fiction movie icon Napoleon Dynamite's. No glibness intended. After reading both books, we suspect Napoleon posed more eloquent forms of this question to his followers more than once, when the stakes were high.
