The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All Paperback - 1999
by Michael Useem; Foreword by Warren Bennis
Nine unusual, inspiring, and dramatic stories about leaders in crisis, and what they have done to succeed or why they have failed. 32 photos throughout.
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Are you ready for the leadership moment?
Merck's Roy Vagelos commits millions of dollars to develop a drug needed only by people who can't afford it - Eugene Kranz struggles to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts home after an explosion rips through their spacecraft - Arlene Blum organizes the first women's ascent of one of the world's most dangerous mountains - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain leads his tattered troops into a pivotal Civil War battle at Little Round Top - John Gutfreund loses Salomon Brothers when his inattention to a trading scandal almost topples the Wall Street giant - Clifton Wharton restructures a $50 billion pension system direly out of touch with its customers - Alfredo Cristiani transforms El Salvador's decade-long civil war into a negotiated settlement - Nancy Barry leads Women's World Banking in the fight against Third World poverty - Wagner Dodge faces the decision of a lifetime as a fast-moving forest fire overtakes his firefighting crew
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Are you ready for the leadership moment?
Merck's Roy Vagelos commits millions of dollars to develop a drug needed only by people who can't afford it - Eugene Kranz struggles to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts home after an explosion rips through their spacecraft - Arlene Blum organizes the first women's ascent of one of the world's most dangerous mountains - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain leads his tattered troops into a pivotal Civil War battle at Little Round Top - John Gutfreund loses Salomon Brothers when his inattention to a trading scandal almost topples the Wall Street giant - Clifton Wharton restructures a $50 billion pension system direly out of touch with its customers - Alfredo Cristiani transforms El Salvador's decade-long civil war into a negotiated settlement - Nancy Barry leads Women's World Banking in the fight against Third World poverty - Wagner Dodge faces the decision of a lifetime as a fast-moving forest fire overtakes his firefighting crew
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- Title The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All
- Author Michael Useem; Foreword by Warren Bennis
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Currency, New York
- Date 1999-11-02
- ISBN 9780812932300 / 0812932307
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 2.29 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98011282
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.34
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