Historians on Leadership and Strategy
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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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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.
