Managers Are Necessary; Leaders Are Essential

In 1943, the Allied Forces teetered on the verge of a historic military collapse in the Burmese Theater of World War II. The weapon that was devastating the British Fourteenth Army was not battleships or bombers but the tiny Anopheles mosquitoes that carried malarial parasites. For every man wounded in action, another 124 were evacuated for disease; at the peak, 84% of His Majesty's fighting force was infected. New pesticides, new malarial medications, and the best efforts of highly trained sanitation officers and front-line physicians failed to solve this seemingly intractable problem—intractable until Commander Field Marshall William Slim realized that it was not a medical problem, but a leadership problem.

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