Geronimo

Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior

Mike Leach, Buddy Levy

• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Year: 2014
• Topic: Business
• eBook ISBN:
  9781476734989
• Subtopic: Leadership
• Index: Business

“In the hands of Mike Leach and Buddy Levy, the story of this brilliant Apache leader comes into sharp focus, both in their narrative of his life and in spirited commentaries on its meaning” (S.C. Gwynne, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon).

Playing cowboys and Indians as a boy, legendary college football coach Mike Leach always chose to be the Indian—the underdog whose success turned on being a tough, resourceful, ingenious fighter. And the greatest Indian military leader of all was Geronimo, the Apache warrior whose name is so symbolic of courage that World War II paratroopers shouted it as they leaped from airplanes into battle.

Told in the style of Robert Greene’s The 48 Laws of Power, Leach’s compelling and inspiring book examines Geronimo’s leadership approach and the timeless strategies, decisions, and personal qualities that made him a success. Raised in an unforgiving landscape, Geronimo and his band faced enemies better armed, better equipped, and more numerous than they were. But somehow they won victories against all odds, beguiling the United States and Mexican governments and earning the respect and awe of those generals committed to hunting him down. While some believed that Geronimo had supernatural powers, much of his genius can be ascribed to old-fashioned values such as relentless training and preparation, leveraging resources, finding ways to turn defeats into victories, and being faster and more nimble than his enemy. The tactics of Geronimo would be studied and copied by the US military for generations.

Pain, pride, humility, family—many things shaped Geronimo’s life. In this “compelling book that humanizes a man many misunderstood” (New York Times bestselling author Brian Kilmeade), Mike Leach illustrates how we too can use the forces and circumstances of our own lives to build true leadership today.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Epigraph
• Foreword by S. C. Gwynne
• Cast of Characters
• Introduction: Geronimo and the American Spirit
• Chapter One: The Making of a Warrior (Discipline)
• Chapter Two: Geronimo’s Warpath Begins (Fortitude)
• Chapter Three: The Coming of the White Men (Lore)
• Chapter Four: The Tan Wolf and the Turkey Gobbler (Independence)
• Chapter Five: Women Warriors and Dreamers (Isolation)
• Chapter Six: The Great Escape (Audacity)
• Chapter Seven: The Great “Rescue” (Passion)
• Chapter Eight: Tragedy in Sonora (Fallibility)
• Chapter Nine: Raiding from the Stronghold (Perseverance)
• Chapter Ten: Encountering an Old Adversary (Rivalry)
• Chapter Eleven: Honoring Commitments (Honor)
• Chapter Twelve: Turkey Creek and Tiswin (Resolve)
• Chapter Thirteen: Speed and Endurance (Fluidity)
• Chapter Fourteen: Once He Moved Like the Wind (Resistance)
• Chapter Fifteen: “Until the Stone Should Crumble to Dust” (Surrender)
• Chapter Sixteen: Prisoners of War (Patriotism)
• Chapter Seventeen: Fame
• Epilogue: Immortality
• Acknowledgments
• A Note on the Text and Sources
• About Mike Leach and Buddy Levy
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography of Works Cited and Consulted
• Index
• Copyright