Groupthink or deadlock [[electronic resource] ] : when do leaders learn from their advisors? / / by Paul A. Kowert

• Autore: Kowert Paul <1964->
• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.)
• Disciplina: 352.23/233/0973
• Soggetto topico: Presidents - United States - Staff; Presidents - United States - Decision making; Political consultants - United States; Political leadership - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government 1953-1961; United States Politics and government 1981-1989
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-256) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Who Learns, and When? -- Eisenhower and Reagan: Comparing Learning Styles -- Learning -- Groupthink -- Deadlock -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The danger of groupthink is now standard fare in leadership training programs and a widely accepted explanation, among political scientists, for policy-making fiascoes. Efforts to avoid groupthink, however, can lead to an even more serious problem—deadlock. Groupthink or Deadlock explores these dual problems in the Eisenhower and Reagan administrations and demonstrates how both presidents were capable of learning and consequently changing their policies, sometimes dramatically, but at the same time doing so in characteristically different ways. Kowert points to the need for leaders to organize their staff in a way that fits their learning and leadership style and allows them to negotiate a path between groupthink and deadlock.
• Titolo autorizzato: Groupthink or deadlock
• ISBN: 0-7914-8920-5; 0-585-45528-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819432103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II