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Title: Contrived.
Review: I could recommend this book only to a 9th or 10th grader who needed to complete a biographical sketch of Alexander. As for the book's premise, namely that one can study Alexander and derive lessons applicable to today's business world, this is as contrived an idea as I've seen in recent years. For example, we learn that Alexander routed his opponent, Darius, at Gaugamela. The defeat was complete. Therefore, claims the author, we can draw from this incident the conclusion that sometimes "deconstruction is the only way to begin a merger." Having lived through numerous mergers and acquisitions, I can only be grateful that personnel decisions were made based on economics and productivity, and not on some irrelevant analogy to war.
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