The Swordless Samurai: Leadership Wisdom of Japan's 16th-Century Legend-Toyotomi Hideyoshi

"The wisdom of this sixteenth-century samurai is astonishingly prescient and pertinent for twenty-first-century leaders. Practical wisdom at its best." —Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, USC, and author of On Becoming a Leader

It was the Age of Wars, a time of endless chaos and bloodshed, when the only law was the law of the sword, and a peasant boy named Hideyoshi dreamed of becoming a samurai. He lacked size and strength and well as social status. To realize his ambition,...