Five-star leadership : the art and strategy of creating leaders at every level /
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| Author / Creator: | Townsend, Patrick L. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Wiley, c1997. |
| Description: | xvi, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2626776 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Leadership At Every Level
- The Quality Revolution
- Frederick Taylor Revisited
- A Laboratory for Leadership
- Where Management and Leadership Part
- Cosmic Views of Leadership
- A Lifetime of Leadership
- 2. Benchmarking in Camouflage
- Overcoming Ambivalence
- America's Finest Citizen-Soldier
- The Basis of Military Leadership
- Relationships between the Ranks
- Making Leadership Happen
- Military Leadership and Quality
- Dr. Deming and Military Leadership Theory
- A Vision for the Future
- 3. Building A Strong Foundation: Followership
- Guidelines for Followership
- Coming to Terms with Followership
- The Interaction between Leadership and Followership
- What Leaders Must Do
- 4. Taking Stock Before Taking Steps
- Making Full Use of the Lists
- Leadership in Twenty-Five Words or Less
- Fourteen Leadership Traits
- Eleven Leadership Principles
- Mastering the Gesture
- 5. Prescription for Progress: Initiative
- That Critical First Step
- The Fraternal Triplets: Industry, Innovation, Self-Confidence
- A Leader's Guide to Encouraging Initiative in Others
- More Ideas for Making Initiative Commonplace
- 6. Staying the Course: Character, Virtue, Ethics
- Virtue in the Twenty-First Century
- Love and Leadership
- Ethical Behavior in Practice
- Publish or Perish
- 7. Relating to Others: Communications, Motivation, Counseling
- Practical Aspects of Information Flow
- Listen Down and Speak Up
- Making (and Taking) Opportunities to Communicate
- Creating a Climate of Motivation
- Personally Influencing Others
- 8. Making it Work
- Authoritarian, Participative, and Delegative Leadership
- The Middle Management Dilemma
- Leadership and Teams
- Discipline--The Right Way
- An Example of Discipline: Driving to Succeed
- 9. Measurements and Leadership
- Tools of the Trade
- A Case Study in Measurement
- Measuring Leadership
- 10. Passing the Torch
- Looking for an Ideal Curriculum
- Looking for an Ideal Instructor
- Mentoring: Teach and Trust
- Postscript: And That's All They Wrote ...
- Appendix A. What's So New about Total Quality Leadership?
- Appendix B. Lists, Lists, and More Lists ...
- Appendix C. USMC Counseling Program Student Handout
- Appendix D. The Subordinate: The Art of Followership
- Appendix E. Love and Leadership
- Bibliography
- Index