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Based on an extraordinary collaboration between Steve Forbes, chairman, CEO, and editor in chief of Forbes Media, and classics professor John Prevas, Power Ambition Glory provides intriguing comparisons between six great leaders of the ancient world and contemporary business leaders. • Great leaders not only have vision but know how to build structures to effect it. Cyrus the Great did so in creating an empire based on tolerance and inclusion, an approach highly unusual for his or any age. Jack Welch and John Chambers built their business empires using a similar approach, and like Cyrus, they remain the exceptions rather than the rule. • Great leaders know how to build consensus and motivate by doing what is right rather than what is in their self-interest.
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Steve Forbes is Forbes Media Chairman and CEO, and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine, where his editorials appear as, "Fact and Comment." The company encompasses Forbes, ForbesLife, ForbesWoman and Forbes Asia magazines; the Web sites Forbes.com, Investopedia.com, RealClearPolitics.com, RealClearMarkets.com, RealClearSports.com, and Forbes.com Business & Finance Blog Network; and 10 international licensee editions. Forbes' publications together reach more than five million readers globally, and its Web sites reach nearly 40 million users each month. A widely respected economic prognosticator, Mr. Forbes is the only writer to have been a four-time winner of the highly prestigious Crystal Owl Award, formerly given by U.S. Steel Corporation to the financial journalist whose economic forecasts for the coming year proved most accurate. In 1996 and 2000 he campaigned vigorously for the Republican nomination for the Presidency. His latest books are: How Capitalism Will Save Us (November 2009) ; and Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today . . . and the Lessons You Can Learn (June 2009) , both by Crown Business. He is also the author of Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS (2005) , and A New Birth of Freedom (1999) , a book of bold ideas for the new millennium.
