ML Cavanaugh – författare

Award-winning Army Strategist, top West Point professor, and living kidney donor Matt Cavanaugh shares the lessons from his 25-year military career that enabled him to turn pain to power, scars to strength, and become great by doing good. For Matt Cavanaugh, nothing worked. He couldn’t help the ones he loved the most, his marriage was on the rocks. Inspired by a near-death combat experience, Cavanaugh transformed himself from failure to fit with an act of radical generosity. He donated a kidney to a stranger, an act that also helped save the lives of seven others dying of kidney failure. Then, just months after surgery, Cavanaugh became the only living kidney donor and fastest American ever to run the toughest self-supported ultramarathon series in the world—RacingThePlanet’s 4 Deserts Grand Slam—twice counted among the world’s greatest endurance races by Time. Best Scar Wins follows Cavanaugh as he uses every lesson and experience, slogan and saying he picked up from his military career to navigate the world’s worst deserts across four continents—from scorpions to penguins—on a mission to save lives. The eleven lessons in this astonishing adventure story—including how to expand your endurability—illuminate a path that anyone can follow to become more than they were before. In a call to live generously in support of others, Best Scar Wins shows you how to embrace your scars as triumphs—not as experiences that hold you back but as lessons that empower you to achieve more than you ever thought possible.

What makes a general great? What should strategic leadership look like? What are successful supreme commanders made of? In answering these questions, retired Lieutenant Colonel ML Cavanaugh traces the campaigns of America's greatest commanders at war. By following Washington, Grant, and Eisenhower, we can see the key winning ingredient in their leadership wasn't technology, resources, or luck - but superior judgment, empathy, and grit. Supreme commanders make decisions; decisions make history. With the social scientist's eye and storyteller's sensibility, Cavanaugh pries open the minds of America's greatest military leaders and brings readers inside the art of the better decision to pinpoint the difference between success and failure. Its implications impact competitive fields like business, sport, and politics. Who Wins Wars matters to cadets and colonels but equally to CEOs, coaches, and all citizens. Its key contribution is for those who recognize how crucial strategic leadership is in the fight for the fates of people, organizations, countries, and history itself. This book breaks open a key ingredient in what - and who - wins wars.

"e;Kings, presidents and military academies have wrestled with versions of that question for millennia. In Who Wins Wars, retired Army Lt. Col. ML Cavanaugh tackles the subject by studying three legendary American generals: George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower...Mr. Cavanaugh reviews their thinking from the strategic heights and asks, 'who wins wars, and what can we learn from those who do?"e; The Wall Street Journal An award-winning military strategist and top West Point professor unlocks the secrets to success in the wars that mattered most, offering fresh insights from history about leadership, power, and the art of better decision making in our modern world.What makes a general great? What should strategic leadership look like? What are successful supreme commanders made of? In answering these questions, retired Lieutenant Colonel ML Cavanaugh traces the campaigns of Americas greatest commanders at war. By following Washington, Grant, and Eisenhower, we can see the key winning ingredient in their leadership wasnt technology, resources, or luckbut superior judgment, empathy, and grit. Supreme commanders make decisions; decisions make history. With the social scientists eye and storytellers sensibility, Cavanaugh pries open the minds of Americas greatest military leaders and brings readers inside the art of the better decision to pinpoint the difference between success and failure. Its implications impact competitive fields like business, sport, and politics. Who Wins Wars matters to cadets and colonels but equally to CEOs, coaches, and all citizens. Its key contribution is for those who recognize how crucial strategic leadership is in the fight for the fates of people, organizations, countries, and history itself. This book breaks open a key ingredient in whatand whowins wars.