The Author

Alan Axelrod is the author of Eisenhower on Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2006), Patton: A Biography, edited by General Wesley Clark (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), Getting Your Way Every Day: Mastering the Art of Pure Persuasion (AMACOM, 2007), and Patton on Leadership: Strategic Lessons for Corporate Warfare (Prentice Hall, 1999), in addition to many others. He is also coeditor (with Christopher G. DePree) of Van Nostrand's Concise Encyclopedia of Science (Wiley, 2003).

Axelrod has served as consultant to Siemens AG (Munich, Germany), Richard E. Steele, Jr. and Associates (Atlanta, Georgia), the Goizueta School of Business, Emory University (Atlanta), and Saint Joseph's Hospital (Atlanta), as well as numerous museums and cultural institutions, ...

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