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Leading a board : chairs' practices across Europe
This book represents the first cross-country study of the work of board chairs in Europe. It includes unique data collected through interviews with almost 200 experienced board chairs and their key stakeholders -- board members, CEOs and shareholders. The book focuses on what board leaders actually do, rather than what they should do, and elaborates on a conceptual contingency framework for understanding chairs' work in Europe. This includes a comprehensive list of chair practices -- iterative behaviour strategies for getting things done, comparisons of contexts for chairs' work and practices among nine countries, and identification of cross-European and country-specific trends that will shape the work of board leaders in the next decade. The book will benefit incumbent and future chairs, directors, shareholders, CEOs, executives and regulators in developing a systemic understanding of the work of a chair in the European business context and gaining insights into how the leader of the board deals with specific challenges.
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The Rise of Modern Jewish Politics
The path toward modern Jewish politics, a process that required a dramatic reconstruction of Jewish life, may have emerged during a far earlier time frame and in a different geographic and cultural context than has previously been thought. Drawing upon current sociological understanding of social movements, this book places the 1827 organized protest in London as an integral part of a transnational social movement continuum-similar to the abolitionist and women's rights movements-that waxed and waned throughout the 19th century. From its early origins in London in 1827, to Montefiore's gallant style of leadership in the Middle East, to the rise of the \"Mourning March\" and street processions of the early twentieth-century, and then on to the civil disobedience of the 1980s, the movement evolved, shifted its contentious center from England to the United States, and adapted to a dramatically altered post-Holocaust environment. This multifaceted and often fractious campaign was never monolithic by nature and was often rife with internal disputes. It ran the gamut between stirring accomplishments and mobilizations that fell far short of expectations. Any attempt to view the lengthy series of international protests as a steady progression of liberality and advancement would be at odds with a far more ambiguous reality.
The Rise of Modern Jewish Politics argues that the numerous protest insurgences strengthened Jewish participation in the public sphere and further defined a public political culture. While the movement certainly evolved through the decades, the core values that first arose in London were retained during the course of several contentious cycles that later surfaced both in Britain and the United States. This book utilizes an innovative interpretive framework to formulate a new paradigm of how Jews entered the modern world. The struggle for Jewish rights remains one of the most enduring social movements in modern history.<
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Poor leadership and bad governance : reassessing presidents and prime ministers in North America, Europe and Japan
This work breaks ground by looking systematically into the manifestations and causes of poor leadership and bad governance in some of the world's most powerful democracies.
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European Public Leadership in Crisis?
This volume questions the changing dynamics of public leadership across different European settings. Chapters highlight emergent discussions on the strengths and weaknesses of current knowledge. Authors investigate the tensions between Anglo-American and economic focused models of leadership that may challenge received wisdom.
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Remember? Forget? What to Remember? What to Forget?
In late November 1942, the Jewish Agency Executive called a press conference and made the first-ever official announcement of the shocking truth: Nazi Germany was perpetrating a systematic, all-inclusive, industrial annihilation of European Jewry. Not a pogrom of the type all too common in Jewish history, but a Holocaust. From that moment began a long, convoluted, agonizing process of internalizing the Holocaust's meanings; of living in its shadow, along with the scars engraved in the flesh and embedded in the consciousness. The article tries to analyze and evaluate the fortitude of presence of the Holocaust in the history and memory of the Israelis, and its possible evolution in the years to come. As well as the odds of Yehuda Elkana's call from 1988, in what he defined as “a call in sake of life and life”, to FORGET. To be freed, finally from “the deep existential which is fed from a particular interpretation of the lessons of the Shoah.” “To stand for life, to divert ourselves for building our future and not to deal over and over in symbols, ceremonies and lessons drawn from the Holocaust.” To uproot, once and for all, “the ruling of the Historical Yizkor” on the everyday life of the Israelis.
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Churchill's phoney war : a study in folly and frustration
\"Given the dearth of scholarship on the Phoney War, this book examines the early months of World War II when Winston Churchill's ability to lead Britain in the fight against the Nazis was being tested. Graham T. Clews explores how Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, proposed to fight this new world war, with particular attention given to his attempts to impel the Royal Navy, the British War Cabinet, and the French, toward a more aggressive prosecution of the conflict\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Passionate Principalship
This book puts 'real life' back into the literature on school principalship. Through a life history approach, it portrays daily life in schools as a much more messy, contested and precarious existence, where principals struggle with passionate commitment to find continuity amongst frequently changing and often conflicting policy initiatives.
The book draws on comprehensively in-depth interview data with new, experienced and veteran principals. Their life stories illustrate the struggles involved in the ongoing negotiation of identities through unprecedented change. The authors lucidly argue that:
The realities of principals' lives are much more demanding that rational linear approaches to reform suggest;
A revolving door approach to the appointment of principals is inadequate
Passion is central to the lives and work of principals, but this passion needs to be rejuvenated and rekindled through opportunities for learning
There is a need for further research on the relationship between the lifecycles of principals, the leadership legacies of school communities and the cycles of mandated reforms as a means of lending coherence to leadership learning and sustained and renewed leaders.
This is essential reading for principals and their professional bodies, academics and researchers, school leaders on leadership courses internationally.
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Europe’s Muslim Political Elite
The author \"interviewed three hundred Muslim political and civic leaders in six countries (Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden)\" (World Policy Journal) in order to find answers to the questions: \"Have Europe's Muslims become apologists for extremism?...Who speaks for Europe's Muslims? And what do European Muslim leaders want, if not war with the West?\"
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