The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triump

Useem, Michael

ISBN 10: 0812932307 / ISBN 13: 9780812932300

Editore: Crown Business, 1999

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• Titolo: The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triump
• Editore: Crown Business
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0812932307
• ISBN 13: 9780812932300
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Edizione: Revised ed.
• Condizione: New

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Are you ready for the leadership moment?

“Gripping adventure and actionable advice.”—Fast Company

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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Michael Useem is the director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he is also the William and Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management. He regularly leads Wharton graduates on leadership treks to the Himalayas.