Hedgehogs and Foxes: Character, Leadership, and Command in Organizations

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 8-8
The Propensity for Risk: Eisenhower in the Military and the Presidency....Pages 9-21
A Disengaged President: Ronald Reagan and His Lieutenants....Pages 23-43
Character and Mood in Presidential Leadership....Pages 45-57
Front Matter....Pages 60-60
To Be Single Minded: Admiral Hyman G. Rickover and the Nuclear Navy....Pages 61-76
A Change Agent: Florence Nightingale and Medical Reform....Pages 77-94
The Uses of Aggression in Overcoming Bureaucracy....Pages 95-102
Front Matter....Pages 104-104
The Education of Robert S. McNamara: Secretary of Defense, 1961–1968....Pages 105-120
From Monomania to Megalomania: Harold Geneen and ITT....Pages 121-136
The Myth and Reality of the Managerial Mystique....Pages 137-146
Front Matter....Pages 148-148
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Militant Nonviolence: A Psychoanalytic Study....Pages 149-162
Frantz Fanon: Purgation Through Violence....Pages 163-173
The Psychodynamics of Empowerment....Pages 175-184
Front Matter....Pages 186-186
Joseph Conrad: Sharing the Secret of Command....Pages 187-198
Herman Melville’s Billy Budd: A Study of Character....Pages 199-209
Identity, Imagination, and Command....Pages 211-218
Front Matter....Pages 220-220
Character and Fitness for Command....Pages 221-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-250