April 12, 2010
Before you act, think through how your leadership in one sphere will translate into leadership in another. Consider the case of British diplomat Roger Casement, who documented the rubber industry’s cruelty to indigenous people in the Congo and Amazon and was knighted in 1911. But five years later, the British hanged him for conspiring with the Germans on behalf of Irish independence.
April 12, 2010
After crushing Texan resistance at the Alamo and at Goliad, Mexican Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was confident that Sam Houston’s ragtag army of 800 volunteers posed no threat to his superior force. But because of his overconfidence at San Jacinto, Santa Anna ended up, in 18 minutes, ceding some 260,000 square miles of territory, which Mexico never would regain.
