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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Rethinking D-Day Keith Grint. Bunce , a sergeant with the 3rd Monmouthshires recalls one of his fellow sergeants asking him ... sergeant , ' Let's have some bloody eggs'.46 Combat commanders who remained oblivious to these problems were ...
Rethinking D-Day Keith Grint. Bunce , a sergeant with the 3rd Monmouthshires recalls one of his fellow sergeants asking him ... sergeant , ' Let's have some bloody eggs'.46 Combat commanders who remained oblivious to these problems were ...
Page 395
... Sergeant Warner Hamlet of F Company demanded that those around him get up and run for the sea wall . But to do that meant risking the bullets , fighting through the barbed wire by hand and running across the shingle that was being ...
... Sergeant Warner Hamlet of F Company demanded that those around him get up and run for the sea wall . But to do that meant risking the bullets , fighting through the barbed wire by hand and running across the shingle that was being ...
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... Sergeant Hollis had , in his own words , a ' good working relationship ' with Major Lofthouse . Just before the invasion Hollis was given a square box by Lofthouse and told to ' give one of these to each of the men Sergeant Major Hollis ...
... Sergeant Hollis had , in his own words , a ' good working relationship ' with Major Lofthouse . Just before the invasion Hollis was given a square box by Lofthouse and told to ' give one of these to each of the men Sergeant Major Hollis ...
Contents
Part Two Leadership and Wicked Problems | 19 |
Part Three Managing Tame Problems | 151 |
Part Four Commanding in Crises | 305 |
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