Indispensable : when leaders really matter / Gautam Mukunda.
By: Mukunda, Gautam.
Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Review Press, c2012Description: xii, 301 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781422186701.Subject(s): Leadership -- History | LeadershipGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 658.4/092Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | HD57.7 .M845 2012 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000001494 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-289) and index.
Preface -- Stalking the high impact leader -- Enter the presidents -- "It is the whole colony" : Jefferson and the Louisiana purchase -- "The best of us" : Lincoln and the Civil War -- "We can always depend on Mr. Wilson" : Wilson, the Senate, and the Treaty of Versailles -- "Crashed into ruins" : Chamberlain and appeasement -- "We shall never surrender" : Churchill and the choice to fight -- Beyond politics -- The royal navy, business, and non-normal science -- The tragedy and potential triumph of leadership -- Notes -- Index.