Drucker wrote about what could be done under difficult or impossible conditions and that included just about everything. His list of extraordinary leaders started in ancient times. His favorite book on leadership was Xenophon’s Anabasis. Xenophon was a Greek historian. Anabasis was written 2300 years ago. But before he turned to writing history, Xenophon was a Greek general elected by soldiers after all their generals had been tricked into coming to a party weaponless and killed by their Persian...
