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Title Historians on leadership and strategy : case studies from antiquity to modernity / Martin Gutmann, editor
Published Cham : Springer, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 267 pages : illustrations
Contents Introduction: The Value of the Historical Perspective for Leadership Studies / Martin Gutmann -- Part I. The postwar period -- Leadership in War and Genocide: Roméo Dallaire in Rwanda / Michael Geheran, David Frey -- Lost in Culture: C and A's Failure in the United States, 1946-1964 / Mark Spoerer -- Prisoners as Leaders of Political Change: Cage 11 and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland / Dieter Reinisch -- Part II The Second World War -- When Complexity Costs Lives: Secondary Goals and Compartmentalized Information in the Second World War's Greatest Raid / Reto Michael Wegmann and Joshua Lorenzo Newett -- Newett Paul Geheeb and Nazi Germany: Progressive Education in the Age of Fascism / Ashley Curtis -- Part III. The Age of the Industrial Revolution -- Mary van Kleeck and the International Industrial Relations Institute:Resolving Conflicts Between Labor and Capital Through the Power of Knowledge / Hannah Mormann -- Roald Amundsen in the Age of Polar Exploration: Entrepreneurshipand Innovation in the Quest to Conquer the Northwest Passage / Martin Gutmannxi -- Clash of Cannons: The American Civil War Leadership of HenryJackson Hunt and Edward Porter Alexander / Allan S. Boyce -- Industrial Leadership and the Long-Lasting Competitiveness of the Swiss Watch Industry / Pierre-Yves Donze -- Part IV. The Pre-modern Period -- Mary Tudor, the First Sovereign Queen of England: The Politicsof Blood, Gender, Law, and Religion in the 1500s / Johanna Luthman -- Muhammad II Khwarazmshah Meets Chinggis Khan: A Tale of Hubrisand Failed Leadership in the Thirteenth Century / Timothy May -- Toregene, Imperial Widow in the Mongol Empire in the 1240s: Opposing Her Husband's Will on Behalf of Her Son -- Anne F. Broadbridge -- Pericles of Athens: Democracy and Empire / Anthony Smart
Summary This book examines the well-covered subject of leadership from a unique perspective: history's vast catalogue of leadership successes and failures. Through a collection of highly compelling case studies spanning two millennia, it looks beyond the classic leadership parable of men in military or political crises and shows that successful leadership cannot be reduced to simplistic formulae. Written by experts in the field and based on rigorous research, each case provides a rich and compelling account that is accessible to a wide audience, from students to managers. Rather than serving as a vehicle for advancing a particular theory of leadership, each case invites readers to reflect, debate and extract their own insights
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Subject Leadership -- History -- Case studies
Strategic planning -- History -- Case studies
Leadership
Strategic planning
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author Gutmann, Martin, 1979-
ISBN 3030260909
9783030260903