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The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All

Are you ready for the leadership moment?

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

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 336 pages

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