Historians on Leadership and Strategy

Introduction: The Value of the Historical Perspective for Leadership Studies. - Part I. The Postwar Period. - Leadership in War and Genocide. - Lost in Culture. - Prisoners as Leaders of Political Change. - Part II. The Second World War. - When Complexity Costs Lives. - Paul Geheeb and Nazi Germany. - Part III. The Age of the Industrial Revolution. - Mary van Kleeck and the Formation of the International Industrial Relations Institute. - Roald Amundsen in the Age of Polar Exploration. - Clash of Cannons. - Industrial Leadership and the Long-Lasting Competitiveness of the Swiss Watch Industry. - Part IV. The Pre-Modern Period. - Mary Tudor, the First Sovereign Queen of England. - Muhammad II Khwarazmshah Meets Chinggis Khan. - Töregene, Imperial Widow in the Mongol Empire in the 1240s. - Pericles of Athens.