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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

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Learning and Relearning
    1. Challenge
    2. Defining Leadership
    3. Strength and Weakness
    4. The Typology of Leaders
    5. The Universality of Effective Leadership Behaviors
    6. Genetics
    7. The New Paradigm
    8. Failure to Utilize Relevant Research
    9. The Criterion Issue
    10. Ethics
    11. The Magic of Organizational Climate
  7. The Pitfall of Instant Gratification
  8. A Few “Truths”
  9. A Shadow Definition
  10. Bad Lessons
  11. An Issue and an Observation
  12. Assessment
  13. Questions of Change
  14. Comparing Military and Business Leaders
  15. The Need to Build, as Well as Operate, Organizations
  16. More Learning
  17. Lessons from the Battlefield
  18. Good and Bad Questions
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