Synopses & Reviews
In this book Keith Grint, who has been studying and teaching leadership for over a decade, investigates the notion of leadership in a series of historical case studies and rich essay portraits of some of the world's most famous leaders. The first part considers four sets of parallel cases where leadership appears to be a major explanation of success and failure. The second takes the four critical issues arising from these parallel cases and explores them.
Review
"well written...truly a voyage of remarkable insight into comparative success and failure situations in different contexts...It is steeped in social and political history, which makes it unique and, for any managers who are students of history, a wonderful excursion....fascinating, illuminating and absorbing."--THES (UK)
Synopsis
Grint investigates the notion of leadership in a series of historical case studies and rich essay portraits of some of the world's most famous leaders.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-432) and index.
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Table
1. Introduction: The Arts of Leadership
Part One. Parallel Leadership Situations
2. Crash-Landing and Take-Off: Business Leadership on Skytrain and Virgin Atlantic
3. The Floating Republics: Political Leadership in the Spithead and Nore Mutinies
4. Nursing the Media: Social Leadership in the Crimean and English Hospitals
5. Scarlet and Black: Military Leadership at Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift
Part Two. Situating Extreme Leaders
6. Henry Ford: The Blind Business Visionary
7. Horatio Nelson: Determining the Indeterminate Military Hero
8. Adolf Hitler: The Political Emotionasaurus Rex
9. Martin Luther King's 'Dream Speech': The Rhetoric of Social Leadership
10. The End of Leadership?
References
Index