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Author Hafrey, Leigh, author

Title War stories : fighting, competing, imagining, leading / Leigh Hafrey
Edition First edition
Published New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (1 PDF (xii, 158 pages))
Series Giving voice to values on business ethics and corporate social responsibility collection, 2333-8814
Giving voice to values on business ethics and corporate social responsibility collection. 2333-8814
Contents 1. Why this book -- 2. The good story -- 3. 9/11 and the alien within -- 4. 2019 and the alien without -- 5. Gettysburg-on-the-Gulf -- 6. The manager, the general, and the entomologist -- 7. Dragon-slayers -- 8. The war at home -- 9. State of grace -- Bibliography and filmography -- Index
Summary Advances a leadership model for business that takes Americans beyond combat and competition as the default setting for our daily enterprise. The book draws on feature and documentary films, TV, social science, and journalism to show that in the 21st century, the United States is reaping the fruit of a long-standing and deep-rooted faith in one take on business practice. Our emphasis on competition and individual initiative has made us the standard-setters for a truly global society, but it has also resulted in a nation on a permanent war footing. That stance threatens to undermine much that we as a nation have achieved; the challenge now is to determine how we might imagine our way forward to more positive social outcomes in politics and economics at home and abroad. Rooted in the history of World War II and the Vietnam era, War Stories traces an arc of military American self-perception on the screen, the printed page, and in public conversation over the past 20 years. It juxtaposes to that arc a different, potentially more liberating and productive story, linking personal and professional commitments to organizational culture and, finally, systems thinking. Ethical, sustainable business practice depends on leaders who can tell that story of business in society, integrating public, private, and civil sector imperatives for an audience eager to engage them. War Stories ends on one such narrative, identifying the practical elements by which we can combine America's most cherished founding principles with 21st century realities
Analysis Afghanistan
American politics
autobiography
business
business ethics
combat
competition
conflict
corporate citizenship
creativity
culture
ethics
fiction
film
genocide
human nature
imagination
Iraq
leadership
narrative
race
Rwanda
story
storytelling
veterans
video games
Vietnam
war
weapons
World War II
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-151) and index
Notes Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 19, 2016)
Subject War and society -- United States
Competition -- United States
Leadership -- United States.
National characteristics, American.
War stories, American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Competition
Leadership
National characteristics, American
War and society
War stories, American
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781631570063
1631570064
1631570056
9781631570056