Historians on Leadership and Strategy: Case Studies from Antiquity to Modernity

Book Overview

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.- T?regene, Imperial Widow in the Mongol Empire in the 1240s.- Pericles of Athens.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030260925
• ISBN13: 9783030260927
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"