This Week's Suggested Book
from the Ashbrook Center
(Monday, August 11, 1997)
 | | Churchill on Leadership:
Executive Success in the Face of Adversity
by Steven F. Hayward |
Prima Publishing
202 pages, January 1997
Hardcover, 20.00
ISBN: 0761508554
A percentage of the proceeds from your purchase of this book from Amazon.com will benefit the
Ashbrook Center.
This book is a case study of the habits, character traits, and administrative practices that compose Churchill's great leadership skills. Written chiefly for business executives and readers interested in the attributes of leadership, the book breaks down and analyzes how Churchill approached decisions and evaluated uncertainty, how he selected and managed personnel, how he conducted meetings, how he dominated the bureaucracy, how he crafted his great speeches and writings, and even his own office habits. The lessons Churchill learned from mistakes and setbacks, and his great strategic military insight, are applied to business circumstances. Above all, the moral purpose at the center of Churchill's character is held up as the vital key to his leadership skills.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The World of Politics and the World of Commerce--What Business Leaders Can Learn from the Great Statesmen
1. The Keys to Understanding Churchill
2. The Executive Churchill: A Brief Survey of His Career in Public Office
3. Confronting Failure and Learning from Mistakes
4. Churchill on Administration: Responsibility and Organization
5. Churchill on Personnel: Managing People and Managing Yourself
6. The Power of Decisions: Churchill's Thought Process
7. Churchill the Communicator
8. Churchill's Personal Traits: The Completion of Leadership
9, Churchill the Inventor and Innovator
Appendix: A Biographical Sketch of Churchill's Executive Career
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