Book description
With thirty-seven years in the U.S. Army, retiring as a three-star general, and nine years as the president and CEO of the Center for Creative Leadership, Walter F. Ulmer, Jr., has a wealth of leadership experience. He is also an exceptionally thoughtful person committed to learning from his experience. This book, selected from columns that he wrote for CCL's periodical Issues & Observations and introduced by an adaptation of an essay written for the Kellogg Leadership Studies Project, and reminds us that there can be no true leadership without learning.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Learning and Relearning
- The Pitfall of Instant Gratification
- A Few “Truths”
- A Shadow Definition
- Bad Lessons
- An Issue and an Observation
- Assessment
- Questions of Change
- Comparing Military and Business Leaders
- The Need to Build, as Well as Operate, Organizations
- More Learning
- Lessons from the Battlefield
- Good and Bad Questions
Product information
- Title: Inside View: A Leader's Observations on Leadership
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 1997
- Publisher(s): Center for Creative Leadership
- ISBN: 9781604917994
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