Citizen Warrior: Major General Joshua Lawence Chanberlain A Study in Command Leadership

Joshua Chamberlains superior command leadership, imaginative planning, and aggressive conduct during the Civil War provide a powerful example of exceptional combat leadership. After studying the descriptions laid down by Clausewitz and then studying the decisions and actions of Joshua Chamberlain in the events in which he was involved during the Civil War, Joshua Chamberlain as a general would qualify for the title of "genius." Joshua Chamberlain's genius residing in his outlook on management and leadership also tended toward the pragmatic. Far from being influenced primarily by irrelevant and high-flown notions based upon "book learning", he learned through study and application, as well as by working with mentoring associates, to put theory into practice the discarded those approaches which proves non-useful and carefully preserved those precepts and practices which had been successfully applied in both military and civilian settings

Author: Usmc Command and Staff College

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Dec 04, 2014

Number of Pages: 38 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1505366844

ISBN-13: 9781505366846