Historians on Leadership and Strategy

Case Studies From Antiquity to Modernity

Buch | Hardcover

XVI, 267 Seiten

2019 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-26089-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Dr. Martin Gutmann is the Managing Director and Lecturer at the Swiss School of Public Governance, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Introduction: The Value of the Historical Perspective for Leadership Studies.- Part I. The Postwar Period.- Leadership in War and Genocide.- Lost in Culture.- Prisoners as Leaders of Political Change.- Part II. The Second World War.- When Complexity Costs Lives.- Paul Geheeb and Nazi Germany.- Part III. The Age of the Industrial Revolution.- Mary van Kleeck and the Formation of the International Industrial Relations Institute.- Roald Amundsen in the Age of Polar Exploration.- Clash of Cannons.- Industrial Leadership and the Long-Lasting Competitiveness of the Swiss Watch Industry.- Part IV. The Pre-Modern Period.- Mary Tudor, the First Sovereign Queen of England.- Muhammad II Khwarazmshah Meets Chinggis Khan.- Töregene, Imperial Widow in the Mongol Empire in the 1240s.- Pericles of Athens.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.11.2019
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 267 p. 5 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	583 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
Schlagworte	A historical perspective on leadership • Artillery leadership at Gettysburg • Challenges of the Peloponnesian War • Churchill and the Transatlantic Alliance • Creighton Abrams's service in World War II • Creighton Abrams’s service in World War II • Historical case studies on leadership • Leadership and institutional transformation • Leadership examples from history • Leadership in VUCA • Leadership of Romeo Dallaire in Rwanda • Misconceptions of leadership • Mistakes of leadership • Non-traditional leadership examples • Women in leadership roles
ISBN-10	3-030-26089-5 / 3030260895
ISBN-13	978-3-030-26089-7 / 9783030260897
Zustand	Neuware