I am organising a research trip to Volgograd, Russia in April 2008. The idea of this trip is to workshop the key lessons from the Battle of Stalingrad by visiting key sites. Each person that attends this battle tour will get a free copy of the Lessons from Stalingrad book!

Let me know if you're interested in coming along - places are filling-up fast and are limited. The tour will begin from Moscow where we will travel by overnight to Volgograd.

Hitler and his generals were thousands of kilometers from Stalingrad, directing the battle based on their percieved understanding of the situaion.

Not one step back. The Soviets had been retreating across thousands of kilometers of steppe, literarily disappearing from the advancing Germans. At the Volga this was to be the end of this retreat. The Soviet's treated Stalin's statement - "not one step back", as an absolute. Ultimately their refusal to fall back any further even when they only held 10% of the city of Stalingrad was a huge factor in their victory.

In an age where relativism is so popular, why not take stand on your next project? Find a value or principle and stick to it: no matter what.