From Command to Collaboration: A Journey in Modern Leadership, gives the reader a fascinating tour of leadership change. Written by Mark Welsh, a man who served many years in the military and became a master of helping large business, this book explores the practical difficulties and the success stories of changing from the culture of the military world to the dynamic environment of business leadership.

Having experienced real combat action and serving in the elite 82nd Airborne Division and in other positions, Welsh vividly translates lessons for effective leadership in times of pressure. These experiences that he underwent on intense playing grounds are the core building block of all these basic virtues as discipline, decision-making, and determination. But when transitioning to more civil positions, one suddenly becomes lost and helpless, which signals the need to learn new skills, such as flexibility, empathy, and collaboration skills that enhance one’s ability to access and navigate through complex structures and systematically innovate new ways of solving emerging problems in teamwork-based civilian capacities. Besides offering solutions to the leadership issues raised, the history shows that leaders are learners transforming themselves and improving other people’s lives irrespective of context.