Can I read Duty First:a Rear In The Life Of West Point And The Making Of American Leaders on EtoBox?

Duty First:a Rear In The Life Of West Point And The Making Of American Leaders by Ruggero, Ed is a business book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Duty First:a Rear In The Life Of West Point And The Making Of American Leaders about?

West Point isn't just a military academy, writes Ed Ruggero--it's "America's premier leadership school." Or at least it's one of them. Ruggero, a graduate and former faculty member who now specializes in leadership training, went back to his old school for an entire year to figure out how West Point builds leaders. "If the successes of its graduates are any indicator, the Academy's approach offers a template for leader development in and out of the military," he writes. And so Ruggero profiles a cross section of West Pointers, from first-year cadets enduring difficult initiation rites to the school's superintendent overseeing the whole process. __Duty First__ prefers showing to telling: there are more stories and anecdotes on its pages than analysis and discussion. It doesn't offer very many clear-cut lessons that, say, business executives might apply to their own leadership dilemmas. The book is primarily about West Point culture, and Ruggero provides an excellent overview of what the school is really like, with its emphasis on strict discipline, the constant tension between military and academic training, and the supreme importance of beating Navy at the annual football game. But

Who reads Duty First:a Rear In The Life Of West Point And The Making Of American Leaders?

Author

Ruggero, Ed

Publisher

Harper;Perennial

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062032690

Category

business

Subjects

Military, Business, Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (15 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14