The Leadership Moment
Subtitle: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All
Contributors: Warren Bennis (Foreword)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: November 2, 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780812932300
Subjects: Management & management techniques; Entrepreneurship; Business/Economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Motivational; Management - General; Executive ability; Leadership; Business & Economics / Management; Case studies; Elite (Social sciences)
First sentence: ONE DAY IN NOVEMBER 1988, a chief and fourteen elders-all male, mostly in their fifties and sixties-welcomed a visitor to the village of Sikoroni in Mali, West Africa.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The leadership moment; title: Roy Vagelos attacks river blindness; title: Wagner Dodge retreats in Mann Gulch; title: Eugene Kranz returns Apollo 13 to earth; title: Arlene Blum ascends Annapurna; title: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain defends Little Round Top; title: Clifton Wharton restructures TIAA-CREF; title: John Gutfreund loses Salomon Inc.; title: Nancy Barry builds Women's World Banking; title: Alfredo Cristiani ends El Salvador's civil war; title: Conclusion : Vision plus action; title: A leader's guide