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| Title: | George C Marshall
: Rubrics of Leadership |
| Author: | Stewart Husted |
| ISBN: | 097096823X : 9780970968234 |
| Illustrations: | 20 b/w photos |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 145x215mm |
| Pages: | 264 |
| Weight: | .494 Kg. |
| Published: | Stackpole Books (Army War College Foundation Press) - December 2006 |
| List Price: | 14.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Biography & autobiography: historic,politic,milita: Military history: American history: Second World War |
There have been more biographies of George C Marshall than any other Army Chief of Staff or Secretary of Defence and almost any Secretary of State -- Jefferson being the most obvious exception. This is not another one. This is a practitioner's examination of a single characteristic leadership. Stewart Husted recognises that for Marshall LEADERSHIP was a verb, not a noun, and this book conjugates it. It is a Leadership book bereft of most academic jargon -- no collaborative synergisms, no Type A, B or even C, no Theory X or Y, nothing approaching charismatic, not even a paradigm, shifting or not shifting. The Marshall Library, Bland's PAPERS, Pogue's MARSHALL, and nearly 100 other sources have been carefully plumbed to extract and glean Marshall Leading, Marshall talking about Leading, and Marshall teaching Leadership. These Rubrics are not a recipe, but are designed to guide the aspiring and explain the successful.
Building a Solid Foundation; A Leader of Character; The U.S. Army: A Learning Organisation; Managing and Planning the Impossible; Building a Winning Team; Building and Maintaining Morale; Communications; Turning Crisis into Success; Conflict Resolution and Negotiation; A Life of Selfless Service; Civil-Military Relations; Chronological Order of George Marshall's Professional Career, 1902-1951; Marshall Plan Speech: Harvard University, 4 June 1947; Index.
