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By Jonathan Gosling, Stephanie Jones

ISBN-10: 1857883713

ISBN-13: 9781857883718

In his early adolescents Horatio Nelson used to be commanding boats with as much as 20 oarsmen. From the age of 18 he took cost of ships taken as prizes. At 21 he was once a captain, answerable for enormous quantities of fellows. via Trafalgar he was once chargeable for the destiny of forty ships and tens of hundreds of thousands of guys.

A supervisor in addition to an inspiring chief, Nelson used to be interested in each send and each seaman, in addition to honour and glory. constantly noticeable, he bravely led from front sharing all of the dangers. A participative instead of directive chief, he however bore ultimate accountability. He was once a legend in his lifetime.

In NELSON’S means, management classes from the good Commander, Stephanie Jones and Jonathan Gosling, either Nelson fans and management academics, have used the very most up-to-date learn to give a completely up to date heritage of Nelson. As a lot an event tale as a enterprise booklet, Jones & Gosling use examples of Nelson’s adventures and stories of daring-do to teach how he embodied the features of the main profitable of leaders.

With chapters akin to Heroism, Vocation, ardour, and thought, Jones and Gosling distil Nelson’s dynamic method of management and administration into useful insights and classes for today’s managers. They ask provocative management questions encouraged by way of Nelson’s personal method of top and advisor the reader to reply to them: Why be a pace-setter? do you want to be a professional on your box? when you be noticeable and lead from front or guidance quiet management? How do you stability your own and dealing existence? Why be a staff participant? are you able to be a pacesetter and a supervisor? Why should still others stick with you? what's going to be your legacy?

With contributions from famous management specialists together with Sir John Harvey-Jones, Admiral Sir Jonathon Band, Greg Dyke and Dr Henry Mintzberg, NELSON’S method presents well timed and very sensible classes for all glossy managers and gives aspiring leaders the chance to obtain ‘the Nelson Touch’.

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Nelson’s respect for his officers and men, his understanding of their values and ability to build their trust, meant he had to be in touch with them. For this he used the mechanism practised in the navy that ‘any sailor could present a petition to the Admiral at any time – he didn’t have to go through a bureaucratic rigmarole’. ’ The thousands of letters that Nelson received and answered show his amazing ability as a communicator. Being a role model was key to Nelson’s ability to inspire, another fundamental of being a hero.

This was Captain William Locker, who became a life-long friend and mentor. A former protégé of the great mid-eighteenth-century admiral Sir Edward Hawke, Locker introduced Nelson to war at sea. Bearing injuries from hand-to-hand fighting and constantly limping due to a bad splinter wound, Locker taught the young man about fighting and set new benchmarks for his personal courage. It was Locker who coined the phrase ‘lay a Frenchman close and you will beat her’, emphasising the advantages of superior gunnery enjoyed by the British navy.

Promotion in the navy also demanded the resilience to survive malnutrition, disease and constant exposure to damp and discomfort, as well as the good fortune to avoid shipboard accidents and random cannon balls that came with every skirmish. It was important to be a survivor, and yet still to be prepared to take risks and make sacrifices – or to seek a more comfortable and less dangerous vocation. Nelson’s first ship was Suckling’s Raisonable, where he gained an understanding of the way of life on board ship, its structure and ordered routine, its hierarchy and its people.

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