Leadership Lessons Learned From Muammar Gaddafi

Author : Lisa Gibson Jd
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1494462834

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Leadership Lessons Learned from Muammar Gaddafi by Lisa Gibson Jd Pdf

Sometimes life's most important lessons come in the most unlikely places.You are probably wondering, what kind of leadership lessons can I learn from one of the worlds most notorious terrorists? After all, he will go down in history as one of the most brutal and evil dictators because of his bad deeds? This is likely going to be one of the most unusual books on leadership that you will ever read. It is as much about the author, Lisa Gibson's journey, as it is about Muammar Gaddafi. On December 21, 1988 their lives collided in one of the most life altering ways, when he murdered Lisa's brother. Despite what he did, she had an unprecedented meeting with him and dedicated her life to helping the people of the country he brutalized.Even if you think there couldn't be anything to worthwhile to learn about leadership from a man like Gaddafi, delve into Lisa's profound book and be inspired and challenged. Discover that your leadership journey is as much about learning “what not to do” in leadership as it is about learning “what to do.”

Author : Ali Abusedra,Sasha Toperich
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780960012756

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Unheard Voices of the Next Generation by Ali Abusedra,Sasha Toperich Pdf

Libya is a dynamic country with a rich and turbulent history that goes far beyond present conflicts. Its people have long fought for freedom and self-government. This publication offers a framework for understanding the pursuit of this progress. The chapters herein presents Libya as seen by a next generation of leaders, ready to build peaceful, democratic, and inclusive institutions. Using events in Libya's recent history as a guide (the establishment of the United Kingdom of Libya under King Idris in 1951; the establishment of the Libyan Arab Republic under Gaddafi in 1969; and the struggle for unity following the 2011 February 17th Revolution), the authors envisage a bettter future for Libya, one in which the light of hard-fought liberty is preserved for generations to come. Through the insights of professionals and experts, above all new Libyan voices, this volume is testament of a bright and secured future for a beautiful and compelling country.

Author : Tshilidzi Marwala
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781776260935

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Leadership Lessons from Books I Have Read by Tshilidzi Marwala Pdf

'Professor Marwala has sought to understand what good leadership should mean by drawing on the collective experience of authors who have written on many topics.' – Former President of South Africa, THABO MBEKI We cannot underestimate how critical strong leadership is in all aspects of our lives. It enables us to run our lives, homes, communities, workplaces and nations. Given its importance, it is pertinent to ask: What is the source of good leadership? Albert Einstein once said, 'The only source of knowledge is experience.' Many philosophers have observed this and, if we accept experience as the only source of knowledge, can we extend this conclusion to leadership? Or is the basis of good leadership intuition or instinct? Or is it perhaps a combination of these? In Leadership Lessons From Books I Have Read, Tshilidzi Marwala adopts the thesis that the source of good leadership is knowledge, and the source of knowledge is experience, which can take many forms: reading widely, listening, and engaging in discussion and debate with other knowledge seekers. If leadership is derived from knowledge and knowledge is derived from experience, the 'experience' in this book is from 50 books that Tshilidzi has read, and so the source of knowledge informing leadership is the collective experience of the more than 50 accomplished authors who wrote those books including, among others, Chinua Achebe, Thomas Sankara, NoViolet Bulawayo, Nelson Mandela, Mandla Mathebula, Eugène Marais, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Daniel Kahneman, Karl Marx, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Nassim Taleb and Aristotle. Divided into four sections, Tshilidzi shares his leadership lessons in the areas of Africa and the diaspora, the search for the ideal polity, science, technology and society, and the leadership of nations. 'Those who do not read, should not lead.' – THILIDZI MARWALA

Author : Horace Campbell
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780798303705

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NATO's Failure in Libya: Lessons for Africa by Horace Campbell Pdf

When the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings erupted in Africa, in the first two months of the year 2011, with the chant, 'the people want to bring down the regime', there was hope all over the continent that these rebellions were part of a wider African Awakening. President Ben Ali of Tunisia was forced to step down and fled to Saudi Arabia. Within a month of Ben Ali's departure, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt was removed from power by the people, who mobilised a massive revolutionary movement in the country. Four days after the ousting of Mubarak, sections of the Libyan people rebelled in Benghazi. Within days, this uprising was militarised, with armed resistance countered by declarations from the Libyan leadership vowing to use raw state power to root out the rebellion. The first Libyan demonstrations occurred on February 15, 2011, but by February 21 there were reports that innocent civilians were in imminent danger of being massacred by the army. This information was embellished by reports of the political leadership branding the rebellious forces as 'rats'.

Author : Mokete C. Lebitso
Publisher : UJ Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781920382483

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Corporate Lessons by Mokete C. Lebitso Pdf

This publication effectively delineates job hunting, from writing a successful curriculum vitae to the feared interview and finally employment. Lebitso also manages to successfully provide information on making the right career choice. The various management styles are carefully explained and he distinguishes between leadership and management.

Author : Everisto Benyera
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030251437

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Reimagining Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in Africa by Everisto Benyera Pdf

Failed attempts in Africa to develop, democratise and instil virtues of a just state and society which promote benevolent leadership and advance political and economic rights and freedoms call for a ‘new’ imagination. By exploring a wide range of issues concerning justice, human rights and leadership, this book makes two major contributions to the extant literature in each of these areas. Firstly, as a project in decoloniality, it constitutes an ‘epistemic break’ from mainstream logics and approaches to understanding state, society and development in Africa, presenting an approach that is filtered through a Euro-American lens that reifies the hegemony of a particular spatio-temporality. In other words, it emphasises the importance of situatedness by thinking from rather than about or with Africa. And secondly, it addresses a fundamental shortcoming in decolonial thought, which is often criticised for rejecting western paradigms of thought without providing viable alternatives. The issues covered include state failure in Africa, the geopolitics of US and NATO military interventions on the continent, individual states’ responses to international law, indigenous moral political leadership, authentic inclusion of marginalised voices in development practice, an endogenous approach to environmental ethics, and a spiritualist reflection on the need for Africa to chart her own course to political, social and economic redemption. By searching for alternative paths to justice, human rights and leadership, this book represents an effort to actualise the core vision of the African Renaissance to find ‘African solutions for African problems’.

Author : Christopher S. Chivvis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Libya
ISBN : OCLC:884475476

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Libya After Qaddafi by Christopher S. Chivvis Pdf

In 2011, NATO and a number of Arab and other countries backed a rebel overthrow of longstanding Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi. When Qaddafi was killed in October, the intervening powers abruptly wrapped up military operations. A small United Nations mission was given responsibility for coordinating post-conflict stabilization support. The essential tasks of establishing security, building political and administrative institutions, and restarting the economy were left almost entirely up to Libya's new leaders. The results of this very limited international approach have been lackluster at best. Libya has fallen behind on a number of critical post-conflict fronts, jihadist groups have made inroads, and there is still a possibility that this newly freed nation could once again collapse into civil war. Although Libya's fate is ultimately in the hands of Libyans themselves, international actors could have done more to help and could still take steps to avert further deterioration of Libya itself as well as the broader region. This report is based on research and interviews with officials in Washington, London, Paris, Brussels, and Tripoli and draws on existing RAND work on post-conflict reconstruction. It explains the challenges that Libya faced after the war, assesses the steps taken to overcome them, draws implications for future post-conflict efforts, and sketches a way forward in Libya itself.

Author : Kjell Engelbrekt,Marcus Mohlin,Charlotte Wagnsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134514106

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The NATO Intervention in Libya by Kjell Engelbrekt,Marcus Mohlin,Charlotte Wagnsson Pdf

This book explores ‘lessons learned’ from the military intervention in Libya by examining key aspects of the 2011 NATO campaign. NATO’s intervention in Libya had unique features, rendering it unlikely to serve as a model for action in other situations. There was an explicit UN Security Council mandate to use military force, a strong European commitment to protect Libyan civilians, Arab League political endorsement and American engagement in the critical, initial phase of the air campaign. Although the seven-month intervention stretched NATO’s ammunition stockpiles and political will almost to their respective breaking points, the definitive overthrow of the Gaddafi regime is universally regarded as a major accomplishment. With contributions from a range of key thinkers and analysts in the field, the book first explains the law and politics of the intervention, starting out with deliberations in NATO and at the UN Security Council, both noticeably influenced by the concept of a Responsibility to Protect (R2P). It then goes on to examine a wide set of military and auxiliary measures that governments and defence forces undertook in order to increasingly tilt the balance against the Gaddafi regime and to bring about an end to the conflict, as well as to the intervention proper, while striving to keep the number of NATO and civilian casualties to a minimum. This book will be of interest to students of strategic studies, history and war studies, and IR in general.

Author : John Antal
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781612005300

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7 Leadership Lessons of D-Day by John Antal Pdf

“Drawing universal truths from urgent battlefield crises, the author provides a terrific guide and training tool for leaders at all levels” (Ralph Peters, New York Times–bestselling author). The odds were against the Allies on June 6, 1944. The task ahead of the paratroopers who jumped over Normandy and the soldiers who waded ashore onto the beaches, all under fire, was colossal. In such circumstances, good leadership can be the deciding factor of victory or defeat. This book is about the extraordinary leadership of seven men who led American soldiers on D-Day and the days that followed. Some of them, like Eisenhower, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., and Lt. Dick Winters, are well known, while others are barely a footnote in the history books. This book is not a full history of D-Day, nor does it cover the heroic leadership shown by men in the armies of the Allies or members of the French Resistance, who also participated in the Normandy assault and battles for the lodgment areas. It is, however, a primer on how you can lead today, no matter what your occupation or role in life, by learning from the leadership of these seven figures. A critical task for every leader is to understand what leadership is. Socrates once said that you cannot understand something unless you can first define it in your own words. This book provides the reader with the means to define leadership by telling seven dramatic, immersive, and memorable stories that the reader will never forget. “Nobody tells a story better than John Antal and nobody knows better how to root out the lessons of history.” —James Jay Carafano, author of Wiki at War

Author : Patrick Forbes
Publisher : P.Forbes
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781607460039

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Lessons Learned in Leadership by Patrick Forbes Pdf

Lessons Learned in Leadership is a book that is a testimonial of sorts of the things that I've learned so far in life while being a leader. It's meant to give people examples of some areas that I've lacked in and other's that I've been successful in while evolving as a leader, it also points out qualities both good and bad that I've noticed in people that have led me. It's meant to let people know that they're not alone in their journey and maybe help others steer clear of mistakes I've made while embracing where I've been successful. If you're just starting out as a leader or you've been a leader this book applies to you.

Author : John Jupp,Captain Kelvin Truss
Publisher : Pearson UK
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781292263847

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Rise Above by John Jupp,Captain Kelvin Truss Pdf

What can you learn from the RAF to transform your own leadership skills? The RAF is a well-oiled machine that gets the job done. Much of that is down to its unique leadership style which doesn’t see leadership as a senior position but instead something that should be distributed to all. Rise Above unpicks the RAF leadership model to provide a fresh perspective on how to: Deploy the shared leadership style to get the best results for your team. Improve your personal leadership competences to guide your own development and enhance your skills as a leader. Embrace contemporary opportunities such as diversity and inclusion, technology, innovation and adaptability, which have long been a reality of the RAF. John Jupp combines practical strategies with inspirational real-life examples from over 100 years of the RAF to illustrate how leadership works so you are better equipped to lead effectively. Whatever your level, you can lead.

Author : Boppana Sarath Chandra
Publisher : Sarath
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Black and Grey by Boppana Sarath Chandra Pdf

Delve into the enigmatic lives of history's most notorious figures in "Black and Grey." From dictators to terrorists, each chapter of this captivating book unveils the complexities of ten individuals who have left an indelible mark on the course of human history. Through meticulous research and vivid storytelling, readers are transported to the heart of the action, from the blood-stained battlefields of war to the clandestine chambers of intrigue. But "Black and Grey" is more than just a recounting of past events; it is an invitation to engage critically with the world around us. As readers navigate the murky waters of history, they are challenged to question assumptions, confront moral dilemmas, and draw their own conclusions. Whether you're a history enthusiast, a student preparing for a debate, or simply curious about the darker side of human nature, "Black and Grey" promises to captivate and enlighten.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Ghana
ISBN : WISC:89131110272

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Ghana News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael B. Colegrove Ph. D.
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Command of troops
ISBN : 9780595348497

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Distant Voices by Michael B. Colegrove Ph. D. Pdf

The Distant Voices Listening to the Leadership Lessons of the Past series is an invaluable resource to anyone who is a student of Military History or wants to learn more about the fundamentals of leadership. Author Mike Colegrove brings over 30 years of experience in higher education and military service to compile and edit the works of some of history's greatest military and political leaders. The Distant Voices series is a real treasure for the serious student of leadership and the art of war. This collection is a worthwhile addition to any library and will retain their value as long as nations engage in conflict. The Distant Voices series covers a diverse field of topics including: Military Planning Strategy Tactics Discipline Motivation Developing vision Power and its effective use Distant Voices Listening to the Leadership Lessons of the Past is a useful resource for those seeking to understand the fundamentals of good leadership through the writings of those who practiced it.

Author : Elesa Zehndorfer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317975748

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Leadership by Elesa Zehndorfer Pdf

Leadership is crucial to the success of any organisation. But how can one seek to most effectively develop the leadership ability of both themselves, and others? How should one define leadership? Are great leaders born or made? This text addresses such fundamental questions via a comprehensive and critical approach to the discussion of key leadership theories. The text encourages the reader to consider the role of both follower and leader in the leadership process, and to recognise the emergence of both effective, and destructive, leadership. Each chapter features 'Expert Insights' on leadership, written by leaders in their respective fields. These insights offer the reader a valuable real-world perspective of leadership that enriches the abstract theory covered in each chapter. The provision of case studies, examples and supplementary online material provide the effective delivery of both undergraduate and postgraduate lectures and workshops, and self-guided study. A concluding chapter that focuses on the development of one’s self-leadership ultimately facilitates a comprehensive introduction to what is at once a seductive, complex, transformative and alluring topic.