Not Your Father’s Leadership Talk – Your Great-Grandfather’s

In 1917, Major Christian Albert Bach gave a farewell address to young Army officers heading into the nightmare of World War I. His words on leadership — self-confidence, moral force, self-sacrifice, fairness, dignity, courage — may be the best talk on leadership ever given. More than a century later, it’s exactly what today’s managers, executives, and newly promoted leaders still need to hear.