GEORGE
C. MARSHALL One of the most interesting ways to learn about leadership is to read the biographies (and autobiographies) of the world’s great leaders. We can learn both from their successes and their failures. I have recently been reading Barbara Tuchman’s Stillwell and The American Experience In China 1911-1945 (Macmillan, 1970). It is a combination of the recent history of China, along with the life of General Joseph (Vinegar Joe) Stillwell. In it he tells of an early encounter with George C. Marshall, who eventually became Chief of Staff under Roosevelt during World War II: When Stillwell came to Tientsin as battalion commander in 1926 he found the person and formed the connection that was to be decisive for his future. This was his acquaintance from World War [I] days who was now serving as Executive Officer of the 15th Infantry, Lieutenant Colonel George C. Marshall. Their tours in China overlapped for only eight months but it was long enough for what had…
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