Call Sign Chaos
James N. Mattis · 2000
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26 yrs
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Why it endured
General James Mattis's memoir and leadership philosophy. Through battles from the Gulf War to Iraq, he draws on Thucydides, Eisenhower, and his own hard experience to describe how to lead in conditions of chaos and uncertainty.
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“General Mattis talks about his idyllic childhood in Washington and he says the greatest gift that his parents gave him was that they introduced he and his siblings to the world of ideas [...] this is what instills in him a lifelong love of learning and of books. He says in his memoir, this is an important line i hope everyone remembers, it says if you haven't read hundreds of books about what you do you are functionally illiterate you will be incompetent because your own experiences are not broad enough to sustain you.”