This book is about globalization and leadership. It is about the fact that a person, no matter how small his chances of success, is capable of transforming the world around him. Each of her heroes was the founder of an era in world history. Each played a huge role in the history of their people and the world as a whole. All together they united and closely intertwined the world, making it the way we see and know it today. The book tells how they succeeded, what qualities they possessed, what exactly they did, what principles guided them when making decisions, how they recognized the one suitable for global moment of transformation and whether their experience can help us in solving current economic and political problems.