Angie Morgan - Leading From the Front: No-Excuse Leadership Tactics for Women

PRAISE FOR LEADING FROM THE FRONT

Learning to lead is important for all women. Leadership skills help you make a difference at work, at home and in your community. Leading from the Front provides women with 10 relevant principles that will compliment any leadership style.

Senator Elizabeth Dole

This engaging book packed with stories from women of courage can help build women with confidence.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter,
Harvard Business School Professor and
bestselling author of Confidence: How
Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks
Begin and End

The Marine Corps needs a few good women, and in Angie Morgan and Courtney Lynch they obviously got two of the best. Leading from the Front is a brilliant, original, practical, profound, human, energetic book written by two remarkable women. Its one of the best books on leadership published in the last several years.

Tom Peters,
coauthor of In Search of Excellence

Angie and Courtney are sought after as leadership consultants by many of the top businesses in the country. Now every leader can have access to their inspiring leadership message. Leading from the Front provides the reader an insiders view of each womans experiences in Americas ultimate boys clubthe United States Marines.

Gail Evans,
author of the bestselling business book
Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman
and former Executive Vice President
of CNN

Women and men can benefit tremendously from the leadership skills Angie and Courtney learned as Marines. As a former Marine and a senior executive, I can personally attest that the leadership principles they discuss have been the foundation of my success in the private sector. They have captured the essence of leadership versus management.

Dave Gagnon,
CEO of Cafe Rio Mexican Grill

I never thought about women becoming business leaders through joining the Marine Corps, but how terrific that Angie and Courtney not only found and honed their own leadership skills that way, but also codified their learnings for the rest of us. As they tell their very personal experiences and evoke how leadership grows, lesson by lesson, the happy result is that all women benefit from their know-howwithout ever having to master the rope climb.

Betty Spence, PhD, President
of the National Association for
Female Executives

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To our husbands,

Matthew Morgan and Patrick Lynch,

who inspire us every day

PAULA ZAHN, JOURNALIST

Ive always admired the Marine Corps camaraderie, ethos, and spirit, which is why in 1994 I was curious about what it took to serve in an organization known as The few. The proud. I wanted to understand the benefits of serving in what is arguably the most demanding branch of the armed forces. I had the unique opportunity to spend a week as a participant in Marine Corps Boot Camp at Parris Island, South Carolina. I was the first female journalist to actively enroll in the rigorous training that all Marine recruits endure. The experience left me with a lasting impression of the dedication, sacrifice, and commitment it takes to earn the title Marine.

The Marine Corps was very gracious in allowing me to assume the role of Recruit Zahn. I was given no special treatment and completed events right alongside the other women in my training platoon. My drill instructors didnt cut me any slack (even though I happened to be 20 years older than most of the recruits).

Prior to participating in Marine Corps training, I had done my best to prepare for the challenges I would face. New Yorks Central Park became my training ground, and I ran about 30 miles per week through its wooded trails, stopping at various playgrounds to test my arm strength on rope swings and monkey bars. I had been an athlete all my life. Training for Boot Camp brought back memories of the demanding drills I went through as a competitive golfer and swimmer in high school and college. Those grueling workouts taught me to approach each new challenge with discipline and thorough preparation. Even after all of this build-up, I was still shocked by the intensity of the physical and mental demands placed on Marine recruits.

During my time at Parris Island, I hiked many miles with a pack, ran in formation runs calling cadence, became familiar with an M-16, and experienced the fear and trepidation of a chemical attack in a gas chamber designed to teach recruits how to use a gas mask properly. I also learned everything from survival swimming to how to employ a grenade. My experience was physically challenging and emotionally daunting. I left the assignment with many bruises, cuts, and scrapes. Even though my body ached for days following my last combat training event, my brief brush with the Corps forever lifted my spirit and confidence.