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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... Wavell's support , and he was put in command of the newly formed 11th Armoured Division . However , at 57 he was considered too old to fight and that unit was subsequently led by Major - General Brocas Burrows while Hobart was given a ...
... Wavell's support , and he was put in command of the newly formed 11th Armoured Division . However , at 57 he was considered too old to fight and that unit was subsequently led by Major - General Brocas Burrows while Hobart was given a ...
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... Wavell confirmed this in his note to General Auchinleck in June 1942 after Tobruk had fallen : Inferiority of material probably [ was the ] primary cause of defeat of our armour but inferiority of training and leadership also likely to ...
... Wavell confirmed this in his note to General Auchinleck in June 1942 after Tobruk had fallen : Inferiority of material probably [ was the ] primary cause of defeat of our armour but inferiority of training and leadership also likely to ...
Contents
Part Two Leadership and Wicked Problems | 19 |
Part Three Managing Tame Problems | 151 |
Part Four Commanding in Crises | 305 |
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29th Division Airborne Division aircraft Allied American Armoured Division artillery attack Badsey Balkoski Battalion battery battle bluffs bombardment bombers bombing Botting Bradley Brigade Caen Calais Canadian captured casualties cent Chandler and Collins Churchill combat commanders Company Corps counter-attack D-Day DD tanks defenders destroyed destroyers DUKWs Eiler Eisenhower enemy fighter fighting fire forces France French glider Gold Beach Hitler Infantry Division invasion June Juno Juno Beach killed landing craft LCTs leadership Linderman London Luftwaffe machine guns miles military Montgomery move naval Neillands Normandy Normann officers Omaha Beach Operation Ouistreham Panzer Division paratroopers Pitcairn-Jones Pointe du Hoc Quoted in Ambrose Quoted in Blandford Quoted in Collier Quoted in Delaforce Quoted in Kilvert-Jones Quoted in Linderman Rangers Regiment rifle Rommel Royal Rundstedt Ryan Sergeant shells Sherman ships soldiers St Lô strategy suggested Sword Beach target troops units Utah Utah Beach vehicles Wehrmacht Wicked Problem