/lit/ - Literature

>>6702419
Leadership usually comes from a combination of having a good sense of strategy and communication skills. You could try starting with one of the simplest yet most important books in pic related. It applies even today and not just to war some like people believe, but in business and other ventures where strategic thinking is necessary.

This is more on a leadership level of a ruler but it still applies.

>>6702419
She is so ugly and her music is terrible. Hang yourself

>>6702419
I love this pic.

you guys were no fucking help

48 laws of power

>>6702660
It's common sense for dummies the book. Anybody with half a brain ought to have figured that shit for themselves. It's common sense!

>>6702419
Thank You For Arguing

Seriously. I used it to take over and then run my uni's student mag a few years back.

It's all about rhetoric and its practical application.

>>6702677
This. This will deconstruct our western perspective on what it means to be a leader.

I'm looking for some too OP. Here's one I found recently by chance. It has some great examples and is a pretty easy read. Some of his conclusions are a bit of stretch. Overall it's a good, fun read about a topic I have trouble finding books about. Also Art of War is an easy, quick read and just covers some basics about tactics as others have said.

>>6702419

The Glass Bead Game by Hesse. Love it

>>6702695
Wrongest poster on /lit/ tonight award is yours.

>>6703777
hate all the Grimes haters. She is a gem

>>6703777
Lucky trips! Here's your prize, Butters!

>>6704229
LITERALLY NO FUCKING ASS

>>6702977

Fundamentals are one of the most important parts of anything you can learn. There's always something to learn, even if it seems basic and obvious. Art of War was one of the first of it's kind in history and it's iconic because it was useful.

Yes, the book points out obvious things, but when shit is going down in a battlefield, sometimes it helps remembering basic and obvious facts that you overlooked in your panic.

>In theory

Are you good at communicating in ways that make people not hate you?

Are you sensitive to the natural flow of things?

Congratulations, you're cut out for leadership.

>In reality

Are you loudly ignorant?

Are you completely immune to logic and language?

Congratulations, you qualify for leadership in the age of media.

>>6702977
hint: people forget basic things all the time. Even geniuses need to learn the fundamentals.

The Art of War was literally written over 2500 years ago. It's not the end game for strategy.

>>6704229

>>6704538
Well pepe'd, my friend!

>No Il Principe mentioned

>>6702419
You can also try reading biographies of leaders, presidents, sports coaches, etc.

>>6704538
that's a rare pepe

>>6702419
read In Storms of Steel by Ernst Jünger

biographies of
napoleon
alexander
caesar
genghis khan
charlemagne
attila
gustavus adolphus
cromwell
etc

>>6704538