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Masters and Commanders by Andrew Roberts — WisdomDeck honest review

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Masters and Commanders

by Andrew Roberts

How Churchill, Roosevelt, Brooke and Marshall argued their way to Allied strategy in World War II. Leadership as negotiation among strong men.

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you want strategy as a human process.

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you want battle narrative.

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Three things you will actually use

Strategy is argued, not decreed.
Friction produces decisions.
Manage up and across.

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Four men, one strategy.

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