This book was recommended from a thread on Facebook a while back and I saw it while browsing at Books-A-Million last week. The paperback book itself made a great gift to a friend the day that I finished reading it. It was 116 pages that were very easy to read. It took me about 3 hours over three days to get through the entire book. I found the author to be well informed historically. I thoroughly enjoyed his imaginary discourses between Attila and us in sharing secrets of leadership success. I will include several of them here at this time.
"You must remember that success in your office will depend largely upon your sustained willingness to work hard. Sweat rules over inspiration!"
"Peace and harmony in your camps will come from reasonable expectation of disciplined action and purpose."
"Do not expect everyone to agree with you - even if you are king."
"Do not try to conform everyone’s behavior unless doing so is critical to tribal discipline or purpose."
The following are referred to as Attilaisms!
"Critical to a Hun’s success is a clear understanding of what the king wants."
"A Hun without a purpose will never know when he has achieved it."
"A chieftain can never be in charge if he rides in the rear."
"If all Huns were blind, a one-eyed warrior would be king."
"Every Hun has value - even if only to serve as a bad example."
This book is available just about anywhere that books are sold and I would recommend it to any and all who are in a position of leadership. The following link should take you to an online text version of the book:
https://archive.org/stream/LeadershipSecretsOfAttilaTheHunPdfBook/leadership-secrets-of-attila-the-hun-wess-roberts_djvu.txt
"You must remember that success in your office will depend largely upon your sustained willingness to work hard. Sweat rules over inspiration!"
"Peace and harmony in your camps will come from reasonable expectation of disciplined action and purpose."
"Do not expect everyone to agree with you - even if you are king."
"Do not try to conform everyone’s behavior unless doing so is critical to tribal discipline or purpose."
The following are referred to as Attilaisms!
"Critical to a Hun’s success is a clear understanding of what the king wants."
"A Hun without a purpose will never know when he has achieved it."
"A chieftain can never be in charge if he rides in the rear."
"If all Huns were blind, a one-eyed warrior would be king."
"Every Hun has value - even if only to serve as a bad example."
This book is available just about anywhere that books are sold and I would recommend it to any and all who are in a position of leadership. The following link should take you to an online text version of the book:
https://archive.org/stream/LeadershipSecretsOfAttilaTheHunPdfBook/leadership-secrets-of-attila-the-hun-wess-roberts_djvu.txt