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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