Hedgehogs and foxes: character, leadership, and command in organizations

Introduction

The optimists

The propensity for risk: Eisenhower in the military and the presidency

A disengaged president: Ronald Reagan and his lieutenants

Character and mood in presidential leadership

The narcissists

To be single-minded: Admiral Hyman G. Rickover and the nuclear navy

A change agent: Florence Nightingale and medical reform

The uses of aggression in overcoming bureaucracy

The managers

The education of Robert S. McNamara: Secretary of Defense, 1961-1968

From monomania to megalomania: Harold Geneen and ITT

The myth and reality of the managerial mystique

The empowerers

Martin Luther King, Jr. and militant nonviolence: a psychoanalytic study

Frantz Fanon: purgation through violence

The psychodynamics of empowerment

The humanists

Joseph Conrad: sharing the secret of command

Hermann Melville's Billy Budd: a study of character

Identity, imagination, and command

Conclusion

Character and fitness for command.