Churchill on Leadership Executive Success in the Face of Adversity

by HAYWARD, STEVEN F.

• ISBN13: 9780761514404
• ISBN10: 0761514406
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Forum Books

Summary

Success often depends on the strength of a single quality: leadership. Winston Churchill is universally recognized as one of the 20th century's great political leaders and his words ring just as true in the world of commerce. A wise, witty, and inspiring leader, Churchill ran Great Britain like a great corporation. "Perhaps the finest book on practical leadership ever written." Brian Tracy Churchill on Leadership demonstrates that the principles that guided Churchill ably translate to private industry today. Author Steven F. Hayward gives strong evidence that, if you remove Churchill from his political context, he would have the resume to be among the great business leaders of any age. Churchill: was a financier (as chancellor of the Exechequer) and labor negotiator (as home secretary) managed a large transportation network (as head of the British Navy) and far-flung property holdings (as colonial secretary) persevered through bankruptcies and other financial disasters conceived and introduced innovative new products over the opposition of his colleagues, and reorganized major production operations in the midst of crisis. With wit and insight, Hayward reveals Churchill's secrets for business success from assembling and inspiring a first-rate team to preparing a wise budget, from communicating a vision to structuring effective meetings, from acting decisively to rebounding from a failure. Laced with epochal events from the historical stage, enlivened with stimulating speculation, and leavened with wit,Churchill on Leadershipis both an enjoyable read and a thought-provoking lesson on leadership. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author Biography

<b>Steven F. Hayward</b> is a senior fellow of the Pacific Research Institute, a public policy think-tank based in San Francisco, and a contributing editor for <i>Reason</i> magazine. He holds a doctorate in history from the Claremont Graduate School.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii	(6)
INTRODUCTION The World of Politics and the World of Commerce--What Business Leaders Can Learn from the Great Statesmen	xiii
CHAPTER 1 The Keys to Understanding Churchill	1	(20)
CHAPTER 2 The Executive Churchill: A Brief Survey of His Career in Public Office	21	(6)
CHAPTER 3 Confronting Failure and Learning from Mistakes	27	(16)
CHAPTER 4 Churchill on Administration: Responsibility and Organization	43	(18)
CHAPTER 5 Churchill on Personnel: Managing People and Managing Yourself	61	(18)
CHAPTER 6 The Power of Decision: Churchill's Thought Process	79	(18)
CHAPTER 7 Churchill the Communicator	97	(16)
CHAPTER 8 Churchill's Personal Traits: The Completion of Leadership	113	(18)
CHAPTER 9 Churchill the Inventor and Innovator	131	(12)
CHAPTER 10 Substance over Style--Moral Purpose, Destiny, and the Force of Personal Leadership	143	(14)
APPENDIX A Biographical Sketch of Churchill's Executive Career	157	(26)
Source Notes	183	(9)
Bibliography	192	(3)
Acknowledgments	195	(2)
Index	197