Three Leadership lessons from Horatio Nelson, Hero of the British Empire
‘I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it is off the better’
The Japanese CEOs are obsessed with Sun Tzu, I am obsessed with another commander who is closer to home, Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Vice-admiral Horatio Nelson was born in 1758 in Norfolk to a financially well-off family. At the age of 14, he took part in an expedition to the Artic to find out a navigable passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean. It ended in…