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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Success often depends on the strength of a single quality: leadership. Winston Churchill is universally recognized as one of the 20th century's great political leaders and his words ring just as true in the world of commerce. A wise, witty, and inspiring leader, Churchill ran Great Britain like a great corporation. "Perhaps the finest book on practical leadership ever written." — Brian Tracy Churchill on Leadership demonstrates that the principles that guided Churchill ably translate to private industry today. Author Steven F. Hayward gives strong evidence that, if you remove Churchill from his political context, he would have the resume to be among the great business leaders of any age. Churchill: • was a financier (as chancellor of the Exechequer) and labor negotiator (as home secretary) • managed a large transportation network (as head of the British Navy) and far-flung property holdings (as colonial secretary) • persevered through bankruptcies and other financial disasters • conceived and introduced innovative new products over the opposition of his colleagues, and reorganized major production operations in the midst of crisis. With wit and insight, Hayward reveals Churchill's secrets for business success from assembling and inspiring a first-rate team to preparing a wise budget, from communicating a vision to structuring effective meetings, from acting decisively to rebounding from a failure. Laced with epochal events from the historical stage, enlivened with stimulating speculation, and leavened with wit, Churchill on Leadership is both an enjoyable read and a thought-provoking lesson on leadership. Synopsis:Winston Churchill was a wise, witty, and inspiring leader who ran England like a great corporation. With this book, businesspeople can follow his example and become better leaders themselves. Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-194) and index. About the AuthorSteven F. Hayward is a senior fellow of the Pacific Research Institute, a public policy think-tank based in San Francisco, and a contributing editor for Reason magazine. He holds a doctorate in history from the Claremont Graduate School. Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction: The World of Politics and the World of Commerce–What Business Leaders Can Learn from the Great Statesmen Chapter 1: The Keys to Understanding ChurchillChapter 2: The Executive Churchill: A Brief Survey of His Career in Public OfficeChapter 3: Confronting Failure and Learning from MistakesChapter 4: Churchill on Administration: Responsibility and OrganizationChapter 5: Churchill on Personnel: Managing People and Managing YourselfChapter 6: The Power of Decision: Churchill's Thought ProcessChapter 7: Churchill the CommunicatorChapter 8: Churchill's Personal Traits: The Completion of LeadershipChapter 9: Churchill the Inventor and InnovatorChapter 10: Substance Over Style–Moral Purpose, Destiny, and the Force of Personal Leadership Appendix: A Biographical Sketch of Churchill's Executive Career Source NotesBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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