And many of the secrets of his success are as useful in today’s competitive business world as they were in rallying the Mongol hordes. Far from being just the tyrant that history records, he was a leader of exceptional vision and modernity.

John Man re-examines the life of Genghis Khan to discover the qualities, characteristics and strategies that made him the great leader that he was. John Man is a historian and travel writer with a special interest in Mongolia and China. How did he do it? What lessons does his life reveal about the nature of leadership? What is “greatness” in leadership? What traits did Genghis possess exactly? Might they apply in other times and other places - even here and today? Yet it took only twenty years for Genghis to build the largest land empire in history: four times the size of Alexander’s, twice the size of Rome’s. As a teenager he was an outcast, fleeing enemies on a mountain in northern Mongolia, an exile, a nobody. Genghis Khan has a very strong claim to be the greatest leader the world has ever seen. What would Genghis have done? Lessons in leadership from history’s most successful (and ruthless) conqueror. John Man’s towering achievement in this book, enriched by his experiences in China and Mongolia today, is to bring this little-known story vividly and viscerally to life.Heftet Bantam books 2010 - 184 sider. How he united the deeply divided Mongol peoples and went on to rule an empire that stretched from China in the east to Poland in the west (one substantially larger than Rome’s at its zenith) is an epic tale of martial genius and breathtaking cruelty. He gives us a first-rate travel book, not so much a life of the khan as a search for him. Book Description Genghis Khan is one of historys immortals: a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. But how much do we really know about this man? How is it that an unlettered, unsophisticated warrior-nomad came to have such a profound effect on world politics that his influence can still be felt some 800 years later? John Man unashamedly confronts the dearth of sources by interpolating passages of personal experience. Author: John Man Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1448154642 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 400 Download Book. In the USA, Time magazine, voted Genghis Khan ‘the most important person of the last millennium’.

In Mongolia he is the father of the nation. In China, he is honoured as the founder of a dynasty. In Central Asia, they still use his name to frighten children. Genghis Khan – creator of the greatest empire the world has ever seen – is one of history’s immortals.

Genghis Khan by John Man