"A Good Day to Die"

When we think of unmitigated disasters, those with any grounding in history would put the near total annihilation of General George Armstrong Custer's troops by Native Americans at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876 on the short list. Custer had performed brilliantly during the Civil War and attained the rank of general at 36. He was a decorated officer but enough of a non-conformist to have been court-martialed twice.

Past performance is often cited as the best predictor of future performance but it's not infallible. Click here for this brief article from the Vistage website which recaps the events of that fateful day at Little Big Horn and extracts some key leadership lessons....and a list of intriguing questions all leaders should pose to themselves regularly.