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Genghis Khan: A brief leadership biography

Genghis Khan's greatest feat of military leadership will likely be never replicated: he began as a humble member of a small tribe and created the largest empire the world has ever known, an empire which included most of central Asia and China. Khan's successors further expanded his empire into "Vietnam, Syria and Korea. At their peak, the Mongols controlled between 11 and 12 million contiguous square miles, an area about the size of Africa" (Genghis Khan, 2013, History.com). Although the phrase the 'Mongol hordes' has become a synonym for barbarism, certain aspects of Genghis Khan's leadership was extremely forward-thinking. First and foremost, he was able to unite the disparate, nomadic tribes of the Mongols. This is a powerful lesson for all leaders -- when an organization is fractured and fighting amongst itself, it is powerless, but when it is united, its potential is limitless.

Genghis Khan's leadership style was a peculiar blend of utter ruthlessness and cool, compassionate judgment. During his early days of consolidating leadership over the Mongols, he went against custom and put "competent allies rather than relatives in key positions and executed the leaders...

He ordered that all looting wait until after a complete victory had been won, and he organized his warriors into units of 10 without regard to kin. Though [Genghis Khan] Temujin was an animist, his followers included Christians, Muslims and Buddhists" (Genghis Khan, 2013, History.com). Born with the name Temujin, he took the name Chinggis Khan [Genghis Khan], which means 'universal ruler,' thus proclaiming his ambitions to the world. Thus, early on in his leadership of the Mongols, Genghis Khan established himself as a transformative leader, with a clear vision of how he wished to rule.
However, as powerful as he was, Genghis Khan created a system of administrative bureaucracy that was enforced according to rules, not patronage. While consolidating his hold over the one million Mongols he abolished both aristocratic titles and enslavement. He made the theft of livestock and the "selling and kidnapping of women" punishable by death, all with the aim of reducing the causes of tribal warfare (Genghis Khan, 2013, History.com). He also created a universal writing system, census, and religious freedom. So long has his subjects were willing to obey him, in other words, life was much more pleasant than it had been previously during the age of constant conflict. He also "granted diplomatic immunity to foreign ambassadors" (Genghis Khan, 2013, History.com). Unlike a leader who wields power solely to gratify his ego, Genghis Khan only created rules and regulations that had…