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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... war - time for both political and military leaders . This was the land of those with an obsessional focus on long - distant goals , and the first strategic decision the Western Allied leaders had to make was whether to concentrate on ...
... war - time for both political and military leaders . This was the land of those with an obsessional focus on long - distant goals , and the first strategic decision the Western Allied leaders had to make was whether to concentrate on ...
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... war era was as important as the war itself and would facilitate Churchill's secret agenda first to dominate Europe and , if necessary , to continue the war - but this time against the Soviet Union using some reassembled German forces.46 ...
... war era was as important as the war itself and would facilitate Churchill's secret agenda first to dominate Europe and , if necessary , to continue the war - but this time against the Soviet Union using some reassembled German forces.46 ...
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... war period , the real issue was one of morale and that morale could only be achieved through discipline induced on the parade ground and inspections , not through irrelevances like combat training or technologies that lessened the ...
... war period , the real issue was one of morale and that morale could only be achieved through discipline induced on the parade ground and inspections , not through irrelevances like combat training or technologies that lessened the ...
Contents
Part Two Leadership and Wicked Problems | 19 |
Part Three Managing Tame Problems | 151 |
Part Four Commanding in Crises | 305 |
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