Overview
- Brings together compelling case studies from the history of leadership
- Enriches management thought with insights from history
- Examines non-traditional leadership challenges and scenarios
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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The Age of the Industrial Revolution
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The Pre-modern Period
Keywords
- A historical perspective on leadership
- Misconceptions of leadership
- Leadership examples from history
- Mistakes of leadership
- Leadership and institutional transformation
- Leadership in VUCA
- Creighton Abrams’s service in World War II
- Churchill and the Transatlantic Alliance
- Artillery leadership at Gettysburg
- Challenges of the Peloponnesian War
- Leadership of Romeo Dallaire in Rwanda
- Historical case studies on leadership
- Non-traditional leadership examples
- Women in leadership roles
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Historians on Leadership and Strategy
Book Subtitle: Case Studies From Antiquity to Modernity
Editors: Martin Gutmann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26090-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26089-7Published: 01 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26092-7Published: 01 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26090-3Published: 01 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 267
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Business Strategy/Leadership, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Human Resource Development