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Leadership in My Rearview Mirror: Reflections from Vietnam, West Point, and IBM
Leadership in My Rearview Mirror: Reflections from Vietnam, West Point, and IBM
Leadership in My Rearview Mirror: Reflections from Vietnam, West Point, and IBM
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Leadership in My Rearview Mirror: Reflections from Vietnam, West Point, and IBM

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Taking an engaging look at the keys to being an exemplary leader, this book illustrates the insights of a man who rose from a reluctant enlisted draftee to coloneleventually being awarded the Bronze Starin the United States Army. The study approaches how to be a commendable leader from a different angle, emphasizing how leaders need to trust their people and how that trust is achieved through assessing a simple set of five vital signs. Using short, anecdotal chapters to convey thoughtful lessons about what it takes to be a superior leader, this guide concludes by presenting the 19 tenets of the author's personal leadership philosophy.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherMC Press
Release dateFeb 1, 2012
ISBN9781583476123
Leadership in My Rearview Mirror: Reflections from Vietnam, West Point, and IBM
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Jack Beach

Jack Beach is a senior consultant with IBM's leadership development organization, managing their leadership strategy and research unit and overseeing all executive leadership development programs. He is a former colonel in the United States Army who helped create the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has served as a consultant for chiefs of staff of foreign services such as Sri Lanka and the Republic of Maldives, deans of foreign military academies, the Los Angeles Police and Sheriff's Departments, and various senior leaders of the Army and Department of Defense. He lives in Newburgh, New York.

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