Friday, November 23, 2012

One Bullet Away

I first heard Nathaniel C. Fick in a radio interview and much later purchased his book: One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer. My only regret is that I waited so long to read it.

This is an intelligent and riveting account of how a leader is developed both through training and experience. The amount of training that Fick, a Dartmouth grad, received from the Marine Corps is impressive but the accounts of how he was able to apply the lessons from that training while leading men in combat make this far more than a "war story."  It's going onto the recommended reading list for my leadership workshops.

An extraordinary book. Check it out.

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