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Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military
The old, top-down approach to leadership doesn't work any more. What we
need is a more flexible, creative approach – one that empowers people
to do their best work, rather than tells them to do so.
In Creative Leadership, Rama Gheerawo applies the mind of a design
expert to the twenty-first-century organisation. In particular, his
book shows how success in the future will increasingly be dependent on
a mastery of three basic principles: creativity, clarity and empathy.
Drawing on his own experience in leading over 100 design projects with
government, business and the third sector, it sets out a blueprint for
engagement and success that applies to everything from small
enterprises, to large multinationals.
Early in the morning of 4 March 2015, a fierce knock at the door
heralded the start of a new chapter in Harvey Proctor's almost
continuous relationship with the police and media, when officers
from the Metropolitan Police raided his home in connection with
Operation Midland, Scotland Yard's investigation into allegations
of a historic Westminster paedophile ring.In Credible and True -
words famously used by the police to describe the allegations of
Proctor's traducer - the former Conservative MP talks frankly about
his life in and out of Parliament, from the struggles and
controversy surrounding his resignation in 1987 to the numerous
homophobic attacks endured since - one of which, revealed here in
horrific detail for the first time, was a very nearly successful
attempt on his life.Finally, he speaks candidly about his most
recent embroilment in Operation Midland, of being the victim of a
'homosexual witch-hunt' that has all but destroyed his reputation,
adding to the topical debate about police lack of due process in
the post-Savile world of 'guilty until proven innocent'.
Brig.genl. Willem (Kaas) van der Waals kyk terugskouend na sy loopbaan
wat gekenmerk is deur veelsydigheid — valskermsoldaat en instrukteur,
operasionele diens in SWA, Angola en Rhodesië, militêre diplomaat en
SAW se hoof van buitelandse betrekkinge.
Hy was ook dosent in strategiese studies, hoof van sielkundige
oorlogvoering, inligtingsoffisier en strategiese beplanner by die
sekretariaat van die Staatsveiligheidsraad. Daarna is hy die eerste
veiligheidshoof van die stad Pretoria.
Dis juis díé veelsydigheid wat hom enersyds met gesagsfigure in die
weermag laat bots het en andersyds wyd aanwendbaar gemaak het.
In this biography Rodney Atwood details the life of General Lord
Rawlinson of Trent (1864-1925), a distinguished British soldier
whose career culminated in decisive victories on the Western Front
in 1918 and command of the Indian Army in the early 1920s. He
served his soldier's apprenticeship in the Victorian colonial wars
in Burma, the Sudan and South Africa. His career provides a lens
through which to examine the British Army in the late-19th and
early-20th century. In the South African War (1899-1902)
Rawlinson's ideas aided the defence of Ladysmith, and he
distinguished himself leading a mobile column in the guerrilla war.
In the First World War he held an important command in most of the
British Expeditionary Force's battles on the Western Front. He
bears a heavy part-responsibility for the disastrous first day of
the Somme, but later in the battle his successful tactics inflicted
heavy losses on the enemy. His Western Front career culminated in a
series of victories beginning at Amiens. He commanded the Indian
Army between 1920 and 1925 at a time of military and political
tension following the 3rd Afghan War and the Amritsar Massacre. He
introduced necessary reforms, cut expenditure at a time of postwar
retrenchment and began commissioning Indians to replace British
officers. He would have taken up the post of CIGS (Chief of the
Imperial General Staff), thus being the only British soldier to
hold these two top posts. He died, however, four days after his
sixty-first birthday. Drawing extensively on archival material
including Rawlinson's own engagingly-written letters and diaries,
this thorough examination of his life will be of great interest to
those studying British military history, imperial history and the
First World War.
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