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Leading Organizations as if PeopleMatter:
HumanistApproaches
Leadership Matters and People Matter
Leadership matters. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) famously demonstrated
empathy with his rank-and-le soldiery when he asserted that “an army
marches on its stomach.” An army needs to have its members at the utmost
state of readiness, whether physical, mental, or in terms of equipment. This
is especially so when the army is set to do battle (as was often the case for
the French army under the leadership of Napoleon). Soldiers whose diet is
decient are unlikely to be at peak tness to engage in combat.
Leadership matters, especially to emplo ...