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Hedgehogs and foxes : character, leadership, and command in organizations /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zaleznik, Abraham, 1924-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Political leadership.
Power (Social sciences)
Control (Psychology)
Leadership > Psychological aspects.
Decision making.
Political leadership > United States > Case studies.
Leadership > Case studies.
Executives > Psychology > Case studies.
Online Access:Contributor biographical information
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Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The optimists
  • The propensity for risk: Eisenhower in the military and the presidency
  • A disengaged president: Ronald Reagan and his lieutenants
  • Character and mood in presidential leadership
  • The narcissists
  • To be single-minded: Admiral Hyman G. Rickover and the nuclear navy
  • A change agent: Florence Nightingale and medical reform
  • The uses of aggression in overcoming bureaucracy
  • The managers
  • The education of Robert S. McNamara: Secretary of Defense, 1961-1968
  • From monomania to megalomania: Harold Geneen and ITT
  • The myth and reality of the managerial mystique
  • The empowerers
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. and militant nonviolence: a psychoanalytic study
  • Frantz Fanon: purgation through violence
  • The psychodynamics of empowerment
  • The humanists
  • Joseph Conrad: sharing the secret of command
  • Hermann Melville's Billy Budd: a study of character
  • Identity, imagination, and command
  • Conclusion
  • Character and fitness for command.