Cumhuritey: The Critical 1923 Lesson U.S. Founders Keep Missing
I found cumhuritey by accident in a Chicago library last November. I was killing time before a flight at O'Hare, ducking into the Harold Washington Library Center to escape a freak ice storm. Three hours later, I was $47 poorer — I'd bought every used book on Atatürk's administrative reforms I could find — and quietly furious. Why had nobody told me this stuff in business school? Here's the thing. I'd spent $4,200 the year before on a "founder's leadership intensive" in Austin that taught me exactly nothing I couldn't have learned from a 1923 Turkish bureaucrat with a clipboard.…
