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The art and adventure of leadership : understanding failure, resilience, and success
\"The path to success represents a conundrum: Ultimate success often requires failures along the way, and fear of failure often blocks ultimate success. But the wise leader needs to know when he or she cannot afford to fail. The Art and Adventure of Leadership examines why some great leaders were able to recover from spectacular failure. And it explores and assesses which leadership skills are nonnegotiable for any leader who seeks to avoid lasting failure and to attain ultimate success.\" -- Provided by publisher.
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The art and adventure of leadership
\"In recent years many management gurus have been speaking glibly of the virtues of failure. Silicon Valley has adopted mantras such as Fail better,\" \"fail fast\" and other variations.This book suggests that good leaders must go deeper. The path to success represents a conundrum: Ultimate success often requires failures along the way, and fear of failure often blocks ultimate success. But the wise leader needs to know when he or she cannot afford to fail.It examines why some great leaders were able to recover from spectacular failure--mainly George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill and Harry Truman, as well as some more contemporary figures. And it explores and assesses which leadership skills are nonnegotiable for any leader who seeks to avoid lasting failure and to attain ultimate success.This manuscript was a collaboration by the late Dr. Warren G. Bennis and his longtime colleague, former USC President Steven B. Sample. It is a fully developed manuscript of about 29,000 words. It was begun in February 2014 and was polished to its current state in the weeks following Dr. Bennis' passing\"--
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Can America \Lose\ in the Globalization Game?
This essay argues that the narrative of American decline reflects an overreliance on evanescent economic trends and on a lack of appreciation for the cultural factors that nurture the processes of globalization and innovation. Despite political dysfunctions, the United States has demographic and cultural assets that are uniquely suited to these processes. Meanwhile, challengers such as China and India must navigate even more serious political, economic, demographic and environmental challenges—and even if they do so successfully, they may face cultural backlashes within societies that are ambivalent about their future direction. Globalization may well be a pernicious process, one that bleeds the planet's resources; yet as long as it represents the main arena of international competition and collaboration, the author suggests that reports of American decline may be as premature today as they were in numerous other moments over the past half-century.
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The Art and Adventure of Leadership
ForewordBill GeorgePrefaceSteven B. SampleAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: An Etymology of the F-WordChapter 1 Redefining Success and FailureChapter 2 Why Success Requires the Right Kind of Appetite for the FightChapter 3 Accepting and Exercising Moral Responsibility: The Ability to Accept-and Manage-Responsibility for Difficult Ethical ChoicesChapter 4 Avoiding Groupthink, Mass Media, and the Failures of the HerdChapter 5 A Timeless Reading List that Leads to Timely SuccessChapter 6 When Failure Is Baked into the SystemChapter 7 Bankruptcy and Failure as the Great American Pastime: A Land of Sec
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Can America \Lose\ in the Globalization Game?
This essay argues that the narrative of American decline reflects an overreliance on evanescent economic trends and on a lack of appreciation for the cultural factors that nurture the processes of globalization and innovation. Despite political dysfunctions, the United States has demographic and cultural assets that are uniquely suited to these processes. Meanwhile, challengers such as China and India must navigate even more serious political, economic, demographic and environmental challenges-and even if they do so successfully, they may face cultural backlashes within societies that are ambivalent about their future direction. Globalization may well be a pernicious process, one that bleeds the planet's resources; yet as long as it represents the main arena of international competition and collaboration, the author suggests that reports of American decline may be as premature today as they were in numerous other moments over the past half-century. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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IS FAITH AN IMPEDIMENT TO PEACE? RELIGION DOESN'T KILL PEOPLE; PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE
Sam Harris has echoed the sentiment in a new book, \"The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason.\" Harris, a foe of not just religious extremists but moderates too, writes, \"Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal,' or they will unmake our world.\" Harris contends that religious faith is \"the devil's masterpiece.\" The notion that religion is the enemy of peace is at odds with the history of the 20th century. Hitler's National Socialists were driven by reason, science and temporal considerations - not by prayer, liturgy or the hope of heaven. Uncle Joe Stalin's calm barbarism sprang not from his youthful intention to be a priest, but from his later spurning of faith-based values. And Mao was religious - and prolific - in his goal of exterminating religious people. Religion says we must love our enemies; science and reason say we are merely animals trying to perpetuate our own line at the expense of rivals. Religion says we gain when we sacrifice; science and reason cannot make that case. Religion says every human is made just a little lower than the angels, crafted in the image of God, and imbued with a great dignity; science says we're a random accident that will be replaced by future accidents. Religion preaches altruism, but altruism is never reasonable.
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Fighting smarter, not harder
Remember that concept? It kept both you and the Soviets in check for four decades. Some of your hawks wanted to pre-emptively bomb the USSR before its nuclear capability caught up to yours. But smarter hawks prevailed, and \"mutually assured destruction\" preserved order. Soberly threaten Saddam Hussein with the incineration of everything within five miles of him if he takes (or helps others take) American lives. He's crazy, but most crazy people are not suicidal. The only way he'll become a suicide bomber is if you back him into a corner.
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