Nothing to Fear: Lessons in Leadership from FDR - Hardcover

Alan Axelrod, PhD

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1591840147 ISBN 13: 9781591840145

Publisher: Portfolio, 2003

Synopsis

Identifies fourteen lessons inspired by Franklin Roosevelt that can help today's business leaders, from treating people properly and admitting to failure to taking risks and enabling change. By the author of Elizabeth I CEO and Patton on Leadership. 35,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Alan Axelrod is a renowned historian and biographer.

From Publishers Weekly:

In his latest management book, Axelrod (Elizabeth I, CEO; Patton on Leadership; Profiles in Leadership; Everything I Know About Business I Learned from Monopoly) looks at "a revealing model of leadership values, ideas, skills, traits, tactics, and strategies." It's certainly a timely subject, considering the business and world political climates. Organizing his portrait around 14 themes (including purpose and principle; credibility; change; motivation; and confidence and courage), Axelrod focuses on the language of leadership, using quotes showcasing Roosevelt's "abundant gifts of eloquent self-expression" to launch chapters on particular (and often redundant) components of leadership. Although the messages themselves are straightforward (e.g., speak the truth; inspire rather than coerce), Axelrod examines them through a scholarly microscope and unfortunately lacks the verbal charisma of his mentor (e.g., he calls the September 11 terror attacks a "rendezvous with destiny"). Still, FDR junkies may want to add this compilation of his business savvy to their collections.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Portfolio
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1591840147
• ISBN 13: 9781591840145
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 273