Historians on Leadership and Strategy
Case Studies From Antiquity to Modernity
Editors: Gutmann, Martin (Ed.)
Free Preview- Brings together compelling case studies from the history of leadership
- Enriches management thought with insights from history
- Examines non-traditional leadership challenges and scenarios
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- About this book
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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. - About the authors
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Dr. Martin Gutmann is the Managing Director and Lecturer at the Swiss School of Public Governance, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction: The Value of the Historical Perspective for Leadership Studies
Pages 1-12
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Leadership in War and Genocide: Roméo Dallaire in Rwanda
Pages 15-39
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Lost in Culture: C&A’s Failure in the United States, 1946–1964
Pages 41-53
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Prisoners as Leaders of Political Change: Cage 11 and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland
Pages 55-75
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When Complexity Costs Lives: Secondary Goals and Compartmentalized Information in the Second World War’s Greatest Raid
Pages 79-92
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Historians on Leadership and Strategy
- Book Subtitle
- Case Studies From Antiquity to Modernity
- Editors
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- Martin Gutmann
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-26090-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-26090-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-26089-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 267
- Number of Illustrations
- 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
- Topics
