Blackwell Usaf

During his decades as a leader within the US Air Force, including directing civil-military operations centers in both Iraq and post-earthquake Haiti, Col. John C. Blackwell, USAF (Ret) wasted a lot of time reading cringeworthy leadership books-rife with inexperience, endless business parables, cheesy acronyms, and wafer-thin reasoning. With Leader’s Portable Handbook: Four Timeless Functions of Leadership-a primer and go-to reference on leadership principles-he hopes to help other leaders avoid needless effort, trials, and errors.

Leader’s Portable Handbook is organized into a practical leadership framework and digests 50 of the best articles, ancient and modern, on leadership fundamentals. Leader’s Portable Handbook will boost your leadership capacity and help clarify your thinking about character.