TY - BOOK AU - Useem,Michael TI - The leadership moment: nine true stories of triumph and disaster and their lessons for us all SN - 9780812929355 (alk. paper) AV - HM141 .U83 1998 U1 - 303.3/4 21 PY - 1998/// CY - New York PB - Times Business KW - Leadership KW - Case studies KW - Elite (Social sciences) KW - Executive ability KW - Leiderschap KW - gtt KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-301) and index; Introduction : the leadership moment -- Roy Vagelos attacks river blindness -- Wagner Dodge retreats in Mann Gulch -- Eugene Kranz returns Apollo 13 to Earth -- Arlene Blum ascends Annapurna -- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain defends Little Round Top -- Clifton Wharton restructures TIAA-CREF -- John Gutfreund loses Salomon Inc. -- Nancy Barry builds Women's World Banking -- Alfredo Cristiani ends El Salvador's civil war -- Conclusion: vision plus action -- A leader's guide N2 - A study of leadership in action focuses on nine real-life accounts of leaders who faced a moment of crisis and what they did to succeed or fail UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random058/98011282.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random044/98011282.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0411/98011282.html UR - http://firstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/DECRead?standardNoType=1&standardNo=9780812929355&sessionid=0&srcdbname=worldcat&key=aa6da8a2c82baf198bb15cea0e8c33221e80bf920f646c1689befa490e90d28c&ectype=EXCERPT ER -