Forget about gleaning leadership lessons from the likes of Attila the Hun or Alexander the Great.

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Howard Pew made Attila the Hun look like a blue-state kind of guy.

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Red Hat may have been targeted by the software industry's answer to Attila the Hun, but the Raleigh, N.

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Voters seem to have the option of Attila the Hun or Trotsky.

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For example, Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun nothing like a pyramid of human skulls at a trade show to attract prospective clients.

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But, hey, if they can extract leadership tips from a brute like Attila the Hun, why shouldn't the hero of the first English epic be fair game?

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His invasion of Iraq, his huge tax cuts, and his intervention in the Terri Schiavo case are among the issues where those on the left view him as being to the right of Attila the Hun.

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"I'm no Attila the Hun, " he says.

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