Napoleon's Glance: The Secret of Strategy

by William Duggan

Book Overview

In Napoleon's Glance William Duggan discovers the secret of Napoleon's success -- coup d'oeil (pronounced koo-DOY) meaning a stroke of the eye, or "glance" a sudden insight that shows you what course of action to take. It comes from knowledge of the past: You draw on what worked in other situations, in a new combination that fits the problem at hand. Napoleon's Glance -- probably the first book to link Napoleon's victories to Picasso's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560256028
• ISBN13: 9781560256021
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Bold Type Books
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Essential Read

Turns standard business strategy upside down. An essential read for anyone seeking an alternate perspective. You might just find that the alternative perspective regularly beats the mainstream.

Fascinating, useful, and well-written!

... This is a great history of social entrepreneurs, military leaders, and other great strategists who figured out how to get what they wanted. Great short chapters on Joan of Arc, Patton, Alice Paul and the suffragists, Japan, and even Picasso and Matisse. Turned out for me to be an excellent source of fun cocktail party chatter. But it is a very very good and unusual kind of self-help book. Yes, the book is NOT about military strategy, but is is about strategy in personal life. I thought it was better than a ton of other popular history or self help books. It helped me understand how to be more successful at figuring out how to get what I want. On the cover General Wesley Clark calls this a "very important book" and I agree!