Good to Greater Genghis

BBC

He killed and pillaged and is widely seen as the epitome of the tyrannical ruler, but was Genghis Khan all bad?

As the BBC prepares to broadcast a revisionist history of the 13th-Century Mongol leader, one historian speculates that Genghis possessed "many of the qualities of a good chief executive."

Disregarding what this might say about the management style of some businesses today, would you want him as a boss?

"On one level, he is a megalomaniac," military historian Dan Snow says. "But on another level, given that you have to judge him by the standards of his time, he was a very good manager."...

Atilla? A prisoner of Visio® and Powerpoint™. Hannibal? Wouldn't shut up about fractional elephant ownership. Alexander? Mergers & Indigestion. But Genggy? A pro all the way. Check out the rest of the piece, including details on his 5 Habits of Highly Effective Marauders:

Here are five reasons you might wish your manager was a megalomaniacal dictator with a taste for world domination.

1. PROFIT SHARING
2. HATED OFFICE POLITICS
3. RAN A MERITOCRACY
4. EMBRACED CHANGE
5. THOUGHT AHEAD

Fluff it up to 100 pages. Call it "The 5 Claws of Conquest: Rules of the Jungle, Traits of the Tiger." Next, wave it under the noses of Jack Welch and The Donald.

Galzuu!!

You've got a bestseller and 2 years of speaking gigs.