Hope Is Not a Method

What Business Leaders Can Learn from America's Army

By: Gordon R. Sullivan, Michael V. Harper

Narrated by: Gordon R Sullivan

In the early 1990s, General Gordon R. Sullivan, Army Chief of Staff, and Colonel Michael V. Harper, his key strategic planner, took the post-Cold War Army into the Information Age. Faced with a 40 percent reduction in staff and funding, they dismantled a cumbersome bureaucracy, reinvented procedures, and set the guidelines for achieving a vast array of new goals. Their approach was based on continuity and change: maintaining their focus on the Army's historic vision and values while introducing new problem-solving techniques and training methods.

Hope Is Not a Method shows how today's businesses can stay on top of long-range issues and maintain a productive workforce during times of change. It offers invaluable lessons in leadership and provides proven tactics any business can implement.

©1996 Gordon R. Sullivan (P)1996 Phoenix Books, Inc.

Excellent book

I must read for every leader and their invaluable teams. Sincere appreciation to all our men and women who serve our country.

Best book I’ve read on Management

I re-listen to this book periodically to move it’s learnings forward in my thoughts.

The mixture of management precepts bolstered by historical stories and the authors experiences weave a compelling framework for the why and how of the art of management.

The best!

Platitudes

2.5 Stars. It's well written, but I learned little. Lots of business platitudes and brief case histories without in-depth studies of changes in the army.

Boring

One of the narrators was very robotic and boring. The material is dry and not very helpful.