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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... military advance , 6-30 June 1944 352 Photos 3.1 Gun emplacement at Longues Battery 3.2 Observation post at Longues Battery 3.3 Longues Battery from the west 74 74 75 4.1 Ruskin Rooms , Knutsford , Cheshire 85 6.1 Bluffs opposite Dog ...
... military advance , 6-30 June 1944 352 Photos 3.1 Gun emplacement at Longues Battery 3.2 Observation post at Longues Battery 3.3 Longues Battery from the west 74 74 75 4.1 Ruskin Rooms , Knutsford , Cheshire 85 6.1 Bluffs opposite Dog ...
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... military road to D - Day ; Tara Moran for helping select the cover and keeping me organized ; the many recipients of my various witterings over the years ; Katy for providing the music via Past Perfect ; Richie for advice on small arms ...
... military road to D - Day ; Tara Moran for helping select the cover and keeping me organized ; the many recipients of my various witterings over the years ; Katy for providing the music via Past Perfect ; Richie for advice on small arms ...
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... military halt by the German army at Dunkirk operated as a ' Hinge Factor ' , that would have altered – nay determined - the course of the war.4 Tsouras has a few more variables to change but the consequence is equally determined by ...
... military halt by the German army at Dunkirk operated as a ' Hinge Factor ' , that would have altered – nay determined - the course of the war.4 Tsouras has a few more variables to change but the consequence is equally determined by ...
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... military advisers to provide instant answers . Had Kennedy responded to the American Hawks we would have seen a third set of problems that fall outside the Leadership / Management dichotomy . This third set of prob- lems I will refer to ...
... military advisers to provide instant answers . Had Kennedy responded to the American Hawks we would have seen a third set of problems that fall outside the Leadership / Management dichotomy . This third set of prob- lems I will refer to ...
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... military are clear , and may well explain why discussion of non - military leadership has tended to avoid the issue of command or explain it as authoritarian leadership that may be appropriate for the military but not in the civilian ...
... military are clear , and may well explain why discussion of non - military leadership has tended to avoid the issue of command or explain it as authoritarian leadership that may be appropriate for the military but not in the civilian ...
Contents
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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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12th SS 29th Division Airborne Division aircraft Allied American amphibious Anglo-Canadian Armoured Division artillery attack Badsey Balkoski Battalion battery battle bombardment bombers bombing Bradley Britain British Army Caen Calais Canadian captured casualties cent Chandler and Collins Cherbourg Churchill coast combat commanders Company Corps counter-attack D-Day DD tanks defenders Delaforce destroyed destroyers DUKWs E-boats Eisenhower enemy fighter fighting fire France French German army glider Gold Beach Hitler Infantry Division invasion June Juno Juno Beach killed Kilvert-Jones landing craft LCTs LCVPs leaders leadership Linderman Luftwaffe machine guns managed miles military million Montgomery move naval Navy Neillands Normandy Normann officers Omaha Beach Operation Overlord Panzer Division paratroopers Pitcairn-Jones Pointe du Hoc Ramsey Regiment rifle Rommel Royal Rundstedt Sergeant shells Sherman ships shot soldiers Soviet squadrons St Lô strategy success suggested Sword Beach target troops units Utah Utah Beach vehicles weapons Wehrmacht Wicked Problem