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character, leadership, and command in organizations

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character, leadership, and command in organizations

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Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
250

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Hedgehogs and foxes: character, leadership, and command in organizations
2008, Palgrave Macmillan
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Table of Contents

Introduction
The optimists
The propensity for risk: Eisenhower in the military and the presidency
A disengaged president: Ronald Reagan and his lieutenants
Character and mood in presidential leadership
The narcissists
To be single-minded: Admiral Hyman G. Rickover and the nuclear navy
A mission in life: Florence Nightingale and medical reform
The uses of aggression in overcoming bureaucracy
The managers
The education of Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense, 1961-68
From monomania to megalomania: Harold Geneen and ITT
The myth and reality of the managerial mystique
The empowerers
Martin Luther King, Jr. and militant nonviolence: a psychoanalytic study
Frantz Fanon: purgation through violence
The psychodynamics of empowerment
The humanists
Joseph Conrad: sharing the secret of command
Hermann Melville's "Billy Budd": a study of character
Identity, imagination, and command
Conclusion.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York, NY
Genre
Case studies.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
658.4/092
Library of Congress
JC330.3 .Z34 2008, HD28-70HD28-70HD28-H

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
250

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16383709M
Internet Archive
hedgehogsfoxesch00zale
ISBN 10
0230606237
LCCN
2007052840
OCLC/WorldCat
187300401
Goodreads
2711963

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