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基本信息·出版社：Portfolio Hardcover
·页码：304 页
·出版日期：2003年06月
·ISBN：1591840155/9781591840152
·条形码：9781591840152
·装帧：精装
·外文书名：永不言败——温斯顿·丘吉尔的领导智慧
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An intimate expert on Sir Winston-his own granddaughter-offers insights on Churchill's greatness and explains his leadership strategies that managers can easily emulate.
Winston Churchill has long been one of the world's preeminent leadership role models and certainly one of the most important motivational voices of the twentieth century. That was illustrated on the night of September 11, 2001, when New York mayor Rudy Giuliani read a biography of Churchill for inspiration on how to guide the city through the aftermath of tragedy.
In
We Shall Not Fail, Celia Sandys, with coauthor Jonathan Littman, offers a new take on the greatness of Churchill, highlighting the traits he employed throughout his life, especially the remarkable strength he displayed leading the British people through the horrors of World War II. Among the lessons she highlights:
€ Nothing works like a simple passion for excellence
€ Encourage a culture where what counts is thinking, trying, and testing
€ Champion innovators and protect them from bureaucrats
€ Do not allow different standards for top executives and workers
€ Put bad news in perspective. Things usually get better, especially if a positive attitude prevails
Part biography, part leadership manual,
We Shall Not Fail is a brief, enjoyable guide to one of history's greatest leaders.
作者简介 Celia Sandys is the granddaughter of Winston Churchill. She is the author of
The Young Churchill and
Churchill: Wanted Dead or Alive.
Jonathan Littman is a journalist.
专业书评 Messier was a wunderkind of French business who at the age of 37 was appointed chief executive of Generale des Eaux. He had already served in the finance ministry under Jacques Chirac and been a managing partner with the investment banking firm Lazard Freres when he assumed leadership of Generale in 1994, and the water management company was one of France's largest corporations. Messier, however, did not see Generale's future in water and sewage management, but in the media and information world. To accomplish the transformation, Messier embarked on a dizzying buying spree highlighted by the $42 billion purchase in 2000 of Seagram, a deal that included Seagram's Universal assets. For Messier, the creation of the newly minted Vivendi Universal (which also bought Houghton Mifflin in 2001) was not only a personal triumph, but also a statement that a French company could compete on the world stage. But as Johnson and Orange show, Messier created a gulf between himself and the French establishment that left him with few allies as he tried to save his company when business conditions declined in 2001. In their briskly paced, insightful work, Johnson, the Paris correspondent for the Financial Times, and Orange, a reporter for Le Monde, relate Messier's many missteps that led to his fall from the top of the media world. Part of Messier's undoing was the disdain many French have for America's domination of the media and the belief that in merging with Seagram, Messier had sold out French culture. Given the French attitude about America as documented by Johnson and Orange, the recent strain in French-American relations comes as no surprise.
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