Leadership of change, Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst
Introduction Top of human culture is created by personalities. Those words belong to Esa Saarinen, from Helsinki University cathedra of philosophy. In book ”History of philosophy, top to top, from Socrates to Marx” she is trying to find answer how much philosophers have influenced history. If we look world wider, there are many other great personalities who have had large influence over historical events. In this article we are looking back to the end of eighteens- and beginning of nineteenths century, in the era of French revolution and Napoleonic wars. We are studying lieutenant general Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst role in transformation of Prussian army. Why where changes in Prussia necessary? How did the Scharnhorst collect information, design the transformation, achieve acceptance and ensure its implementation, to what extent changes where success and what we can learn from that today? General Scharnhorst was an interesting person due to the fact that he was a t...