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The character edge : leading and winning with integrity
PRAISE FOR THE CHARACTER EDGE
"The Character Edge is inspiring and practical in equal measure, drawing upon both scientific research and personal experience in how, and why, to develop strengths of heart, mind, and gut. Only Mike Matthews and Bob Caslen could have written it. This will surely be an instant classic!" -ANGELA DUCKWORTH, CEO of the Character Lab and bestselling author of Grit
"If you ever aspire to effective leadership, whether at the tactical or strategic level, you'll soon learn that the most important ingredient in effective leadership is character. Bob Caslen and Mike Matthews have captured this truth in both theory and application with moving and insightful stories and personal experiences. This book will both challenge you and motivate you to lead a life of integrity and honor, and in so doing, inspire the men and women you lead to the highest achievements they never thought possible. Bob and Mike have something very, very important here. I hope it goes viral in a big way."
-ADMIRAL WILLIAM H. McRAVEN, US Navy (Ret.), former chancellor of the University of Texas and bestselling author of Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations
"General Bob Caslen and Dr. Mike Matthews have done a great job illustrating why character and excellence are the most important elements in effective leadership. I have always believed that character and excellence go hand in hand, and this has always been the formula for our teams that win. Bob and Mike are proven leaders of character, and their examples and principles are what I have used my entire career."
-MIKE KRZYZEWSKI, head men's basketball coach at Duke University
"General Caslen and Michael Matthews are absolutely the right people to write this book. Together they form a genius of and the art of leadership and the science of character, the crucible of hard experience and the rigor of academic research, the searing lessons of decisive action and the enduring insights of wise reflection. Few great leaders have a charis-matic personality, but all have character that inspires. Caslen and Matthews show how and why this fundamental inner architecture of leadership can-and must be built."
-JIM COLLINS, author of Good to Great and coauthor of Built to Last
"We believe it is the quality and character of the leader that determines the results. In The Character Edge we discover a blueprint for instilling values-based leadership to achieve significance and success."
-FRANCES HESSELBEIN, chairman of the the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum, former CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA, and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
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