Title
- Lee And Grant
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Charles R. Bowery, JrPublication Details
BookAmerican Management Association2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E470.2 .B77 2005 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Their actions in the Overland Campaign define the qualities that made them exceptional leaders — qualities just as relevant in modern business settings.Filled with riveting battlefield scenes, Lee & Grant showcases the generals’ legendary skills and illustrates the crucial value of:* persistence: Lee’s ability to hold Grant at bay prolonged the survival of the Confederacy.* distinguishing between reverse and defeat: Grant’s knack for leveraging tactical defeats toward larger objectives made even Lee admit that Union victory was “a mere question of time.”* forming and disseminating a vision, then synchronizing and orchestrating its execution across an entire organization. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- "Lee & Grant combines a historical account of the Overland Campaign with a study in leadership - as powerful and relevant today as it was on the battlefields of Virginia. Stripping away many of the myths and hyperbole, Lee & Grant delivers an account of their successes and failures, along with dozens of leadership lessons that managers and executives can put to use in any organization."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- Ch. 1. Marse Robert
- Ch. 2. Sam Grant
- Ch. 3. Lee and Grant prepare for the 1864 campaign : leadership and organizational planning
- Ch. 4. The wilderness : from planning to execution
- Ch. 5. Spotsylvania : adapting your leadership style to changing situations
- Ch. 6. The greater war : Grant and strategic leadership
- Ch. 7. To the North Anna : organizational leadership skills for crisis situations
- Ch. 8. Cold Harbor : friction and failure in organizational leadership
- Ch. 9. To the James and beyond : transformational leadership
- Afterword : Appomattox : the adversaries meet
- App. Order of battle - Union and Confederate forces in the Overland Campaign
- App. Leadership laboratories : touring the battlefields of the Overland Campaign
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- 0814408192
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