Posted on 04/05/2015 5:28:04 PM PDT by Jacquerie
Napoleon had extraordinary political and personal as well as military gifts. His genius was not limited to the ability to read a battlefield and take the right action at the right time.
He had a gift for reading people, for knowing what each one most desperately wanted and needed. He then had the ambition and singleness of purpose to decide which people mattered to him, and then to give them what they wanted.
As Napoleon rose, he had to judge how to keep people loyal to him. This again required an exquisite sensitivity to what others want. One man can be yours for money, another seeks dignity and honor, a third power, and someone else wants the freedom and the resources to undertake an interesting and exacting task.
One doesn’t want to end like Napoleon, but one could do much worse than begin as he did.
(Excerpt) Read more at the-american-interest.com ...
A longer read, but worth it.
A longer read, but worth it!
Interesting
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