Leadership, Management and Command: Rethinking D-DayThe author argues that the successes and failures of D-Day, on both sides, cannot be explained by comparing the competing strategies of each side. Instead he provides an account of the battle through the overarching nature of the relationship between the leaders and their followers. |
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... commander of the US Strategic Air Forces in Europe , with deep fore- boding because heavy bombers simply did not have ... commanders insisted on the original timings . Thus the American bombers were instructed to delay their drops until ...
... commander of the US Strategic Air Forces in Europe , with deep fore- boding because heavy bombers simply did not have ... commanders insisted on the original timings . Thus the American bombers were instructed to delay their drops until ...
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... commanders empowered to use their initiative because the great planner , allegedly , already had an infallible plan ; if only the Germans had allowed it to unfold . For Field Marshal Slim the issue was closely related to the ...
... commanders empowered to use their initiative because the great planner , allegedly , already had an infallible plan ; if only the Germans had allowed it to unfold . For Field Marshal Slim the issue was closely related to the ...
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... commanders ; the poor bloody infantry on the German side were generally able but usually unwilling to do the same for their leaders . There are already many narrative accounts of D - Day and this book is not designed to replicate these ...
... commanders ; the poor bloody infantry on the German side were generally able but usually unwilling to do the same for their leaders . There are already many narrative accounts of D - Day and this book is not designed to replicate these ...
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... Commander , whose role is to take the required decisive action that is to provide the answer to the problem , not to engage processes ( management ) or ask questions ( leadership ) . Of course , it may be that the Commander remains ...
... Commander , whose role is to take the required decisive action that is to provide the answer to the problem , not to engage processes ( management ) or ask questions ( leadership ) . Of course , it may be that the Commander remains ...
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... Commanders , for example , having defined the problem as Critical , do not only have access to coercion but coercion is legitimated by the constituting of the problem as Critical in a way that PROBLEMS , UNDERSTANDING AND DECISION ...
... Commanders , for example , having defined the problem as Critical , do not only have access to coercion but coercion is legitimated by the constituting of the problem as Critical in a way that PROBLEMS , UNDERSTANDING AND DECISION ...
Contents
19 | |
Part Three Managing Tame Problems | 151 |
Part Four Commanding in Crises | 305 |
Part Five Retrospective | 416 |
Notes | 429 |
Bibliography | 484 |
Index | 493 |
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