In a time when the world's great businesses - from IBM and General Motors to Wal-Mart and Microsoft - are struggling with the challenge of change, a surprising source of powerful leadership ideas has emerged: the new U.S. Army.A global powerhouse with nearly 1.5 million employees, an annual budget of $6.3 billion, and strategic alliances in every major nation, the Army is one of the world's vastest, most complex organizations. Remarkably, since the end of the Cold War, the Army has been transformed more thoroughly - and more successfully - than any business. It has retooled for the Information Age, tackled and mastered a bewildering array of new missions, and moved to shed decades-old bureaucratic methods - all while dramatically downsizing.In Hope Is Not a Method, General Gordon R. Sullivan, the Army Chief of Staff who led the transformation, and Colonel Michael V. Harper, one of his key strategic planners and thinkers, provide businesspeople with the practical lessons of their experience. Read Less