Indispensable
Subtitle: when leaders really matter
By: Gautam Mukunda
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781422186701
Subjects: Leadership; History
Description: xii, 301 p. ; 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Stalking the high impact leader; title: Enter the presidents; title: "It is the whole colony" : Jefferson and the Louisiana purchase; title: "The best of us" : Lincoln and the Civil War; title: "We can always depend on Mr. Wilson" : Wilson, the Senate, and the Treaty of Versailles; title: "Crashed into ruins" : Chamberlain and appeasement; title: "We shall never surrender" : Churchill and the choice to fight; title: Beyond politics; title: The royal navy, business, and non-normal science; title: The tragedy and potential triumph of leadership; title: Notes; title: Index.