The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All

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Are you ready for the leadership moment?Merck's Roy Vagelos commits millions of dollars to develop a drug needed only by people who can't afford it xB7; Eugene Kranz struggles to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts home after an explosion rips through their spacecraft xB7; Arlene Blum organizes the first women's ascent of one of the world's most dangerous mountains xB7; Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain leads his tattered troops into a pivotal Civil War battle at Little Round Top xB7; John Gutfreund loses Salomon Brothers when his inattention to a trading scandal almost topples the Wall Street giant xB7; Clifton Wharton restructures a $50 billion pension system direly out of touch with its customers xB7; Alfredo Cristiani transforms El Salvador's decade-long civil war into a negotiated settlement xB7; Nancy Barry leads Women's World Banking in the fight against Third World poverty xB7; Wagner Dodge faces the decision of a lifetime as a fast-moving forest fire overtakes his firefighting crew