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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... decision - making process lies in the correct analysis of the situation - that , again , would be to generate a determin- istic approach - but I am suggesting that decision - makers tend to legit- imize their actions on the basis of a ...
... decision - making process lies in the correct analysis of the situation - that , again , would be to generate a determin- istic approach - but I am suggesting that decision - makers tend to legit- imize their actions on the basis of a ...
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... decisions his decision to demand personal control over the deployment of the Panzer reserves effectively reduced a Wicked Problem to a Tame one that only he could solve . Tame prob- lems , as was suggested in Chapter 1 , are resolved by ...
... decisions his decision to demand personal control over the deployment of the Panzer reserves effectively reduced a Wicked Problem to a Tame one that only he could solve . Tame prob- lems , as was suggested in Chapter 1 , are resolved by ...
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... decision to continue with the Sherman certainly smacks of a Tame approach because the Pershing was , for the US army , a total break with traditional doctrine and thus fits neatly within the Wicked criteria . - The final chance to ...
... decision to continue with the Sherman certainly smacks of a Tame approach because the Pershing was , for the US army , a total break with traditional doctrine and thus fits neatly within the Wicked criteria . - The final chance 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