This book was previously published in 1998 by Crown Publishing Group.
This book examines, for the first time, Churchill's executive side. Here he's portrayed not as a mythic historical figure but rather as a role model for today's executives and managers. With wit and insight, historian Steven F. Hayward reveals Churchill's secrets for business success--from assembling and inspiring a first-rate team for preparing a wise budget, from communicating a vision to structuring effective meetings, from acting decisively to rebounding from failure. Hayward concludes each chapter with a brief summary of the extraordinary lessons learned.
Steven F. Hayward is the F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at AEI.
Table of Contents
Preface Introduction: The World of Politics and the World of Commerce
Keys to Understanding Churchill
The Executive Churchill: A Brief Survey of His Career in Public Office
Confronting Failure and Learning from Mistakes
Churchill on Administration: Responsibility and Organization
Churchill on Personnel: Managing People and Managing Yourself
The Power of Decision: Churchill's Thought Process
Churchill the Communicator
Churchill's Personal Traits: The Completion of Leadership
Churchill the Inventor and Innovator
Substance over Style
Appendix A: Biographical Sketch of Churchill's Executive Career
Meticulously researched and textured with fascinating details, these essays "show" as well as "tell" where Russia has been in the past fifteen years and where it is going.
This book explores a problem that has been building quietly for years: the military has been expending without expanding or even replacing what has been spent.
