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Eisenhower for Our Time
Steven Wagner
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R666
R552
Discovery Miles 5 520
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A new book to help senior executives and boards get smart about
risk management The ability of businesses to survive and thrive
often requires unconventional thinking and calculated risk taking.
The key is to make the right decisions-even under the most risky,
uncertain, and turbulent conditions. In the new book, Surviving and
Thriving in Uncertainty: Creating the Risk Intelligent Enterprise,
authors Rick Funston and Steve Wagner suggest that effective risk
taking is needed in order to innovate, stay competitive, and drive
value creation. Based on their combined decades of experience as
practitioners, consultants, and advisors to numerous business
professionals throughout the world, Funston and Wagner discuss the
adoption of 10 essential and practical skills, which will improve
agility, resilience, and realize benefits: Challenging basic
business assumptions can help identify "Black Swans" and provide
first-mover advantage Defining the corporate risk appetite and risk
tolerances can help reduce the risk of ruin. Anticipating potential
causes of failure can improve chances of survival and success
through improved preparedness. Factoring in velocity and momentum
can improve speed of response and recovery. Verifying sources and
the reliability of information can improve insights for decision
making and thus decision quality. Taking a longer-term perspective
can aid in identifying the potential unintended consequences of
short-term decisions.
Dwight D. Eisenhower' election to the presidency in 1952 brought an
end to two decades of Democratic rule in the White House. His
landslide victory, however, masked intense factionalism within the
Republican Party. Whereas conservatives were eager to reverse the
domestic and foreign policies of past administrations, liberal
Republicans favored active federal involvement in Americans' lives
and an internationalist approach to affairs abroad. As political
historian Steven Wagner demonstrates, Eisenhower sought a "middle
way" between Democrats to his left and conservatives to his right.
In American political culture, those who describe themselves as
"middle of the road" are often portrayed as unwilling to take a
stand or lacking in political sophistication. This was not the case
with Eisenhower, whose "middle way" was the result of careful
consideration. Despite his party's commitment to limited
government, free enterprise, and individual initiative, Eisenhower
believed that, in some cases, the federal government needed to
intervene. Eisenhower's enormous popularity with the American
people assured him reelection and high approval ratings throughout
his two terms of office. This popularity did not, however,
translate into legislative success; his proposals were often
defeated by an unlikely coalition of liberals and conservatives.
Nor did Eisenhower's popularity carry over to his party, a fact
driven home by the defeat of his vice president, Richard Nixon, in
the 1960 presidential election. In the resulting battle for control
of the party, conservatives prevailed. Wagner concludes with a
candid discussion of the legacy of "Eisenhower Republicanism" and
the ways in which the subsequent conservative victory has continued
to shape the party to this day.
Sixty-four heroes. One story. Sharon Wells Wagner, author of Red
Wells, collaborated with her son, Stephen Wagner, on this
extraordinary account of one of history's greatest conflicts: World
War II. Told through the eyes of its participants, Ordinary Heroes
is a compelling collection of true stories woven into a single
narrative spanning the entire war-from the waters of Pearl Harbor
to the sands of Normandy to the mountains of Okinawa. The result of
more than sixty interviews, this is a story about enlisted
men-ordinary men whose families struggled to survive the Great
Depression, who grew up on farms and in the small towns of rural
America. When called upon to serve they rose to the challenge. In
war they saw the best and the worst of humanity. They experienced
hope and despair, joy and heartbreak. Those who survived returned
home profoundly changed. War leaves its mark on the best of men,
and the courageous individuals within these pages are no exception.
They did not turn their backs when history needed them most, but
met the challenge head on. In doing so they brought peace to a
world at war.
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