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Leadership secrets of Attila the Hun / Wess Roberts.
LIBRA HM141 .R6 1989
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roberts, Wess
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Attila, -453.
- Attila.
- Leadership.
- Medical Subjects:
- Leadership.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 110 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Warner Books, [1989], ©1987.
- Summary:
- Discusses the leadership secrets of Attila the Hun describing his addresses to his warriors, keeping peace in the camp, and negotiating.
- Contents:
- Introduction: in search of Attila
- In the Roman Court : "leadership qualities"
- The lust for leadership : "you've got to want to be in charge"
- Becoming a Hun : "customs"
- Peace in the camp : "morale and discipline"
- The fury of internal battles : "cunning in the tribes"
- The tribute : "paying and receiving deference"
- Battle dress and armament : "chieftains are as they appear to their Huns"
- Aetius : "picking your enemies wisely"
- Leading the charge : "responsibilities of a chieftain"
- The omen of Aquileia : "the essentials of decisiveness"
- Horse holders : "the art of delegation"
- Booty : "rewarding your Huns"
- Attila and the Pope : "the art of negotiation"
- Surviving defeat : "there is another day"
- The bones of caravans past : "lessons learned"
- Ashes to ashes : "departing with nobility"
- Atilaisms : selected thoughts of Attila.
- ISBN:
- 0446515167
- 9780446515160
- 0446391069
- 9780446391061
- OCLC:
- 18463338
- Online:
- Publisher description
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