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新编研究生综合英语教程Advanced English for Graduate Students:General Skills Academic Literacy Unit SevenManagement Text A Leadership Strategy: Jack Welch or Napoleon Bonaparte? Strategy is about detailed planning: a battle of wits between the leader / manager and whatever forces he or she is pitted against. Even relatively simple business initiatives require strategic thinking---the need to act in a way that moves you closer to the final goal, rather than in a way that merely solves the immediate problem. Leadership is the art and science of getting things done through people. A great leader decides the direction of efforts and the life or death of a company or a nation. Through the analysis of strategies employed by Jack Welch, Overview the first CEO of the world and Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the greatest strategic thinkers of history, the author shows us the significant role strategy plays in businesses and battles and stresses the fact that if the grand strategy is right, then potential victory is still in the detail, but without brilliant conception and flawless planning, the minor strategies that you employ in pursuit of the overall goal will fail. Background Information Pre-reading Questions Text A Leadership Strategy: Jack Welch or Napoleon Bonaparte? Vocabulary Exercises Text A Leadership Strategy: Jack Welch or Napoleon Bonaparte? 1. Information about the author 2. Information about Jack Welch 3. Information about Napoleon Bonaparte Background Information Text A Leadership Strategy: Jack Welch or Napoleon Bonaparte? l. Comprehension II Word Study III Cloze Exercises Jonathan Gifford is a lecturer of European Communications School, author of Marshall Cavendish Business. Background 1. Information about the author : . Background 2. Information about Jack Welch (1935-) American business executive, author and chemical engineer. He was chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. During his tenure at