The leadership moment - Michael Useem

Are you ready for the leadership moment?

"Gripping adventure and actionable advice."-Fast Company

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