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Title:
Overcoming leadership challenges : international perspectives
Publication Date:
2015
Publication Information:
Kingston, Ontario : Canadian Defence Academy Press, 2015.
Physical Description:
iv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
9780660029016
Abstract:
"Overcoming leadership challenges addresses both perennial leadership challenges and challenges that come from today's operational environment." -- Foreword, page iii.
General Note:
Produced for the Canadian Defence Academy Press by 17 Wing Winnipeg Publishing Office.
Contents:
1. New Zealand: Leadership: simplifying the complex / Commander Mark Meehan -- 2. Singapore: Understanding the process of military leaders' development as professionals / Senior Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Siew Hoi Kok -- 3. United States: The pseudoscientific leader: do bad leaders endure by using pseudoscientific thinking? / Craig A. Foster, PhD, and Jennifer A. Clarke, PhD -- 4. Switzerland: The problem of evil leadership: conceptual aspects and visualized narratives / Florian Demont, PhD, and Michael Jager -- 5. United States: Military leadership and administrative evil / George E. Reed, PhD, and Lieutenant Colonel James M. Dobbs, PhD -- 6. United States: Situational obstacles to enacting transformational leadership in military organizations / Lieutenant Colonel Daniel J. Watola, PhD, Lieutenant Colonel (Ret'd) Douglas R. Lindsay, PhD, and Lieutenant Colonel Robert D. Reimer -- 7. Canada: Getting ready to change: what leaders can do to foster change readiness / Martin Yelle, PhD, and Martin Lauzier, PhD -- 8. Australia: Operating in the age of 24/7 media coverage: challenges for strategic leaders / Brian Agnew -- 9. Indonesia: Cross-generational leadership: challenges in leading the Indonesian Army as a modern organization / Lieutenant Colonel Frega Ferdinand Wenas-Inkiriwang, Lieutenant Colonel Ardistopo Endro Tjahjono, and Colonel Eri Radiyawara Hidayat, PhD -- 10. United States: The dynamics of rules, learning, and adaptive leadership: inspirations and insights from the United States Marine Corps / Jerry Guo and Mie Augier, PhD -- 11. South Africa: When military leaders differ from their political leaders: overcoming leadership challenges / Colonel Piet C. Bester, D Phil, and Major Anita G. du Plessis
Language:
English
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