The Unseen Leader: How History Can Help Us Rethink Leadership

The Unseen Leader delivers one simple but immensely powerful point: we need to radically rethink how we discuss leadership.

In this book, American historian Martin Gutmann passionately challenges the received wisdom that history's great leaders were individuals with a proclivity for action and brash words. Drawing on extensive historical scholarship and contemporary leadership theory, Gutmann delves into the journeys of four unknown or misunderstood leaders who achieved remarkable successes...