Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton: Six Characteristics of High-Performance Teams - Softcover

Kiland, Taylor B.; Fretwell, Peter; London PhD., Estate Of Jack; Stockdale, James B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1682472175 ISBN 13: 9781682472170

Verlag: Naval Institute Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

In addition to the co-authors' combined qualifications, including meticulous research and writing in a lucid, easy-to-grasp narrative style, Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton is a tome, the forerunner of future research into the nature of unyielding courage and its application to strategic leadership principles." ― Leatherneck

Why were the American POWs imprisoned at the "Hanoi Hilton" so resilient in captivity and so successful in their subsequent careers? This book presents six principles practiced within the POW organizational culture that can be used to develop high-performance teams everywhere. The authors offer examples from both the POWs' time in captivity and their later professional lives that identify, in real-life situations, the characteristics necessary for sustainable, high-performance teamwork. Taylor Baldwin Kiland and Peter Fretwell show readers how to apply these principles to their own organizations and create a culture with staying power.

Originally intending their book to focus on fighter pilot James Stockdale's leadership style, the authors found that his approach toward completing a mission was to assure that it could be accomplished without him. Stockdale, they explain, had created a mission-centric organization, not a leader-centric organization. He understood that a truly sustainable culture must not be dependent on a single individual.

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Peter Fretwell is a former radio news anchor, talk show host, and is currently a broadcast executive. He was studying for his MBA when he became interested in the remarkable resilience of the Hanoi Hilton POWs. His graduate research led him to Taylor Baldwin Kiland's first book on the POWs, which began their collaborative work on Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton.

Taylor Baldwin Kiland is a writer and ghostwriter who specializes in military non-fiction. She has written, co-authored, ghost-written or edited thirteen books, including Open Doors: Vietnam POWs Thirty Years Later; the children’s books The U.S. Navy & Military Careers and Oz, Dog of the Del; and A Walk in the Yard: A Self-Guided Walking Tour of the U.S. Naval Academy. A former naval officer – the third generation in her family to serve in the Navy, Taylor spent twenty years in the private sector as a marketing communications professional before starting her writing career. She holds a master's degree in Marketing Communications from Northwestern University and a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Southern California. She lives in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband and their four-year-old daughter.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Naval Institute Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1682472175
• ISBN 13: 9781682472170
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
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