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Title
The unseen leader : how history can help us rethink leadership / Martin Gutmann.
ISBN
9783031378294 (electronic bk.)
3031378296 (electronic bk.)
9783031378287
3031378288
Published
Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 197 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-031-37829-4 doi
Call Number
HD57.7
Dewey Decimal Classification
658.4/092
Summary
The Unseen Leader delivers one simple but immensely powerful point: we need to radically rethink how we discuss leadership. In this book, American historian Martin Gutmann passionately challenges the received wisdom that history's great leaders were individuals with a proclivity for action and brash words. Drawing on extensive historical scholarship and contemporary leadership theory, Gutmann delves into the journeys of four unknown or misunderstood leaders who achieved remarkable successes in vastly different environments -- the Polar North, the deserts of Arabia, the sugar plantations of the Caribbean, and Second World War London. What emerges is an entirely new narrative on leadership. Contrary to the perception of heroic protagonists forging ahead boldly, history's truly great leaders were often precisely those who didn't need to generate excessive noise or activity. Instead, they skillfully minimized dramatic circumstances. Their stories challenge our present-day conception of leadership and can inspire the leaders of tomorrow.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 11, 2023).
Introduction: History and Leadership
Towards a New Leadership Story: The Polar Explorer, the Desert Fox, and the Action Fallacy
History's Unseen Leaders: Holiday Trips in the Polar Wastelands. Roald Amundsen
Napoleon's Thorn. Toussaint Louverture
"If the Women of the English Are Like Her, the Men Must Be Like Lions." Gertude Bell
The Myth of the Phoenix and the British Bulldog. Winston Churchill
Rethinking Leadership: The Story We Tell.
