Wisdom Is Not Enough

Reflections on Leadership and Teams

By: Jeff Appelquist

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Hardcover | 3 March 2022

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202 Pages

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In Wisdom Is Not Enough: Reflections on Leadership and Teams, award-winning author Jeff Appelquist draws on his twenty-five years of real-world experience as a military officer, lawyer, corporate executive, and entrepreneur to share his hard-won and compelling insights into what makes great leaders and their teams tick. The book's forty chapters represent a compilation of articles that Jeff wrote as a columnist for his local business newspaper over eighteen months from the spring of 2009 to the fall of 2010 during a tremendously difficult time when both the American and world economies struggled mightily. The writings all delve into some facet of leadership and teams, but from a variety of perspectives.

Topics range from every type of modern-day business issue, challenge, and story, to the French and Indian War, the journey of Lewis and Clark, the American Civil War, Roald Amundsen's trek to the South Pole, disasters at Mann Gulch, Montana, and high up on Mount Everest, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the lessons learned from golf and chess. Leadership lessons are all around us, if we just look closely enough.

Wisdom Is Not Enough is a remarkably original and profoundly inspiring book that will motivate leaders everywhere, not just those in business but in every field, from government, to the military, to non-profits, to academe and beyond, to take a closer look at their own individual leadership essence and to reassess the dynamics of the teams that they lead.

Wisdom Is Not Enough is an indispensable guidebook for anyone who is living the great adventure, as well as the never-ending challenge, of an ongoing leadership journey.

Industry Reviews

"In Wisdom Is Not Enough, Jeff Appelquist draws on a deep understanding of history and engaging ability for storytelling to offer insightful reflections on leadership, decision making and life. I found the book original, thought-provoking and interesting." -John E. Schlifske, chairman and CEO, Northwestern Mutual

"Wisdom Is Not Enough is an impressive compilation of some of the most practical leadership lessons I have read. Jeff Appelquist brings together a series of well-selected stories of real-life leadership challenges across the range of topics most critical to leaders today, from sharpening one's personal leadership style to assembling and leading teams and making decisions. New and aspiring leaders will benefit from the well-balanced perspective this book offers on the challenges they will face as they develop their own leadership style. Experienced leaders will find this a book that genuinely challenges them to continue to adapt and grow." -Anthony P. Bihl III, president and CEO, American Medical Systems

"Wisdom Is Not Enough is a remarkable collection of reflections on leadership that delivers thoughtful insights based on historical perspective, modern management theory, and sound practical advice. The book provides an important opportunity for introspection that every sincere leader needs. I learned and profited greatly from Wisdom Is Not Enough." -Ephi Eyal, president and CEO, Innovative Food Processors, Inc.

"Jeff Appelquist introduces these forty intriguing essays by noting that 'leadership lessons are everywhere if we just look closely enough.' He is particularly skilled at finding these lessons in many places-from long-ago battles to the latest current events-and then teaching them in succinct and interesting ways. Great leaders must have experience, self-awareness, competence, comfort with paradox, a zest for learning, and the ability to influence others. Some may call that wisdom. But Jeff is right, wisdom is not enough; great leaders must also possess the courage to change-that is, to overcome their successful past." -Lynn W. Olsen, Ph.D., founder, president, and CEO, The Innovation Group, Inc.

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