How Leaders Decide: A Timeless Guide to Making Tough Choices
by Greg Bustin (Author)

About the Author
Greg Bustin led the Dallas office of an international consultancy before founding Bustin & Co. Today, Greg advises leaders at some of the world's most admired companies, and he's dedicated a career to coaching, inspiring and equipping seasoned and aspiring leaders in a range of industries. He's facilitated more than 200 strategic planning sessions, and he's delivered more than 500 keynotes and workshops on five continents. His fifth leadership book-How Leaders Decide: A Timeless Guide to Making Tough Choices-examines 52 of history's greatest triumphs and tragedies and will be published in April 2019 by Sourcebooks.

About this book
Can today's leaders look to history when making tough decisions?
Whether you're running a small team or an international enterprise, all leaders know the feeling of facing a tough choice. It's impossible to see into the future to predict how our decisions play out, but we can look to the momentous decisions of the past for insights on how profound choices are made. Each decision made by influential figures, from Alfred Nobel and Marie Curie to Martin Luther King, Jr., and The Beatles, have shaped our world―and now they can help you make the decisions that will determine the direction of your organization.
Guiding you through fifty-two dramatic historical events and decisions that changed the course of our world, How Leaders Decide challenges decision-makers with provocative ideas and leadership lessons that will propel your business forward. Greg Bustin's well-researched and inspiring stories of high-stakes turning points in history and the leaders that made the final call will help you make sure your next decision is the one that changes everything.
How Leaders Decide is an essential book for readers of Start with Why and Leaders Eat Last!

Brief contents
Introduction
Week 1: Bruce Ismay Reviews the Designs of Titanic
Week 2: Alfred Nobel Reimagines His Legacy
Week 3: Julius Caesar Crosses the Rubicon
Week 4: A Letter Triggers William McKnight’s Curiosity and Launches an Empire
Week 5: Liddy, Mitchell, Dean, and Magruder Plan the Watergate Break-In
Week 6: Queen Elizabeth Declines to Marry, Producing No Heir to the Throne
Week 7: Reich Minister Speer Counters Hitler’s Plan to Destroy Germany’s Art and Infrastructure
Week 8: Pope Gregory XIII Issues Papal Bull Reforming the Julian Calendar
Week 9: Henri Dunant Forms the International Red Cross
Week 10: Colonel William B. Travis Gives His Alamo Defenders a Choice: Leave, or Stay and Die
Week 11: Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Hundred Days” Combats the Great Depression
Week 12: John Adams Agrees to Defend British Soldiers Charged with Murder
Week 13: Abraham Lincoln’s Shrewd Idea Exposes the South as the Aggressor
Week 14: The Final Days of America’s Bloodiest Conflict Teach Us about Loss
Week 15: Apollo 13’s Mid-Flight Explosion Threatens Crew’s Safe Return to Earth
Week 16: Winston Churchill Gives the Worst Speech of His Life
Week 17: Barack Obama Deploys SEAL Team 6 on Operation Neptune Spear
Week 18: Mona Lisa Is Sold to the King of France
Week 19: Hattie Caraway Becomes First Woman Elected to the U.S. Senate
Week 20: Charles Dow Develops a Stock-Picking Index in Use More Than a Century Later
Week 21: Max Lauffer Invites Jonas Salk to Establish His Lab at the University of Pittsburgh
Week 22: Emily Post Begins Work on Etiquette
Week 23: Allies Invade Normandy in World’s Largest Military Battle
Week 24: The Beatles Audition with George Martin
Week 25: Charles Darwin’s “Pencil Sketches” Reveal First Theories of Natural Selection
Week 26: Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Annihilate Custer and His Men at Little Bighorn
Week 27: America’s Founding Fathers Deflect Differences to Achieve Common Goal
Week 28: The Berlin Wall Symbolizes a Culture of Fear
Week 29: John Roberts Becomes Black Bart
Week 30: Edward Whymper and His Team Are the First Climbers to Ascend the Matterhorn
Week 31: Vince Lombardi Holds First Practice with the Green Bay Packers
Week 32: Andrew Hamilton Presents Novel Defense in John Peter Zenger Libel Trial
Week 33: Steve Jobs Rescues Apple from Insolvency
Week 34: Doane Robinson Persuades Gutzon Borglum to Travel to the Black Hills
Week 35: Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers “I Have a Dream” Speech
Week 36: Branch Rickey Signs Jackie Robinson to Shatter Baseball’s Color Barrier
Week 37: Frank Capra Buys the Rights to It’s a Wonderful Life
Week 38: Two Years of Civil War Produce a New and Improved Magna Carta
Week 39: Mary Edwards Walker Relishes Roles as a Suffragist, Surgeon, and Spy
Week 40: Walt Disney Invites His Banker to Private Screening of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Week 41: Benjamin Franklin Convenes First Junto Club in Philadelphia
Week 42: John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev End Cuban Missile Crisis
Week 43: Henry V Defeats the Odds, Leading His Army to Victory at Agincourt
Week 44: Sir Ernest Shackleton Gives Order to “Abandon Ship”
Week 45: George Washington Bids Farewell to His Troops
Week 46: Herbert Hoover Designates a Permanent Place for Relaxing
Week 47: Viktor Frankl Tests His Theory on Himself in a Concentration Camp
Week 48: Nelson Mandela Opens Anti-Apartheid Talks from Prison
Week 49: Sam Walton Hires His First Partner to Support Aggressive Expansion Plan
Week 50: Marie Curie Defies the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Week 51: Jesse Owens Wins Unprecedented Fourth Gold Medal at Berlin Olympics
Week 52: Henry Ford Doubles Workers’ Wages

Pages: 304 pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks (April 2, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1492667587
ISBN-13: 978-1492667582