Character and Fitness for Command

Abraham Zaleznik

Chapter 17 in Hedgehogs and Foxes, 2008, pp 221-228 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract What it takes in competence and character to command will depend to a significant extent on the forces at work, both in the environment and internally, in the particular organization. In government organizations, political factors tend to dominate thinking and action. In private enterprise, the aim of leadership is to avoid if not eliminate politicization. There is a Gresham’s law applied to organizations: politics drives out realistic thinking. President Reagan’s effort to produce a budget in February 1982 is a good case in point.

Keywords: Chief Executive; Critical Incident; Defense Budget; Arabian Horse; Cuban Missile Crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230614154_17

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