TY - BOOK AU - Useem, Michael TI - The leadership moment: nine true stories of triumph and disaster and their lessons for us all SN - 9780812932300 U1 - 303.34 PY - 1998/// CY - New York PB - Three Rivers Press KW - Leadership--Case studies KW - Elite (Social sciences)--Case studies KW - Executive ability--Case studies N2 - Merck’s Roy Vagelos commits millions of dollars to develop a drug needed only by people who can’t afford it • Eugene Kranz struggles to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts home after an explosion rips through their spacecraft • Arlene Blum organizes the first women’s ascent of one of the world’s most dangerous mountains • Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain leads his tattered troops into a pivotal Civil War battle at Little Round Top • John Gutfreund loses Salomon Brothers when his inattention to a trading scandal almost topples the Wall Street giant • Clifton Wharton restructures a $50 billion pension system direly out of touch with its customers • Alfredo Cristiani transforms El Salvador’s decade-long civil war into a negotiated settlement • Nancy Barry leads Women’s World Banking in the fight against Third World poverty • Wagner Dodge faces the decision of a lifetime as a fast-moving forest fire overtakes his firefighting crew. (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/182104/the-leadership-moment-by-michael-useem-director-of-the-wharton-schools-center-for-leadership-and-change-management-with-a-new-foreword-by-warren-bennis/) ER -