Hedgehogs and foxes character, leadership, and command in organizations
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 n...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY
Palgrave Macmillan
2008
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
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Politiker
> Persönlichkeitspsychologie
> Führungsstil
> Macht
> Political leadership
> Power (Social sciences)
> Control (Psychology)
> Leadership
> Psychological aspects
> Decision making
> Executives
> Psychology
> Führungskraft
> Persönlichkeitsstruktur
> Geschichte 1850-1982
> Fallstudiensammlung
> United States
> Case studies
> Fallstudie
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 change agent: Florence Nightingale and medical reform -- The uses of aggression in overcoming bureaucracy -- The managers -- The education of Robert S. McNamara: Secretary of Defense, 1961-1968 -- 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 -- Character and fitness for command. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-243) and index |
| Beschreibung: | XIII, 250 S. 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 0230606237 0-230-60623-7 9780230606234 978-0-230-60623-4 |