Historians on Leadership and Strategy Case Studies From Antiquity to
This book examines the well-covered subject of leadership from a unique perspective: history's vast catalogue of leadership successes and failures. Through a collection of highly compelling case studies spanning two millennia, it looks beyond the cla
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Historians on Leadership and Strategy Case Studies From Antiquity to Modernity
Historians on Leadership and Strategy
Martin Gutmann Editor
Historians on Leadership and Strategy Case Studies From Antiquity to Modernity
Editor Martin Gutmann ETH Zurich Zurich, Switzerland
ISBN 978-3-030-26089-7 ISBN 978-3-030-26090-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26090-3
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Foreword
Some weeks before his death in 2018, Kofi Annan, former United Nations Secretary General, gave a talk in Zurich. He explained that he was once given 6 weeks to reorganize the United Nations. He complained to Sergey Lavrov, then Representative of the Soviet Union, that this was a mission impossible for a young leader such as himself. Lavrov smiled and explained, “Well, God reorganized the whole world in just 6 days,” to which Annan remembered to have replied, “Mr. Lavrov, don’t forget, He was working alone!” Is there anything that has not been tried to understand, explain, teach, and train leadership to grasp this concept like Newton grasped the movement of the planets? From Max Weber’s charismatic leader to today’s transformational head of a multinational company, hundreds of concepts have been proposed by both academics and practitioners with no enduring success. Strong opinions prevail: Peter F. Drucker, one of the most-read management thinkers said: “Effective leadership doesn’t depend on charisma. Dwight Eisenhower, George Marshall, and Harry Truman were singularly effective leaders, yet none possessed any more charisma than a dead mackerel. . . .” Moreover, Archie Brown has written a whole book about “The Myth of the Strong Leader”, questioning the overall contr
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