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This 3-page paper compares leadership aspects between two books, Norman Schwarzkopf's autobiography and Peter Drucker's Management Challenges for the 21st Century.
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positions on differing topics, they are, in reality, similar to one another, as both deal with leadership, and the necessity of change to affect leadership. Both books ended up discussing
the need to be flexible in the face of changing circumstances. In Schwarzkopfs book, he places much of the credit for logistical
success of the Desert Storm fight on the shoulders of William "Gus" Pagonis, who oversaw the necessary logistical activities to make it through the Persian Gulf War. Schwarzkopf actually details
the need for important leadership and logistics early on in his own autobiography, as he discusses General George G. Marshalls attempts to deliver aid to the Soviets during World War
II. Ironically enough, U.S. soldiers attempted to deliver that aid through the Persian corridor; " . . . ships would sail to the head of the Persian Gulf, where their
cargoes would be unloaded and trucked north through Iran, across the Caucasus, and into the Soviet Union"1. The problem came, he saw, in Iran - in that "too many shipments
werent making it through" because of the mountain tribes who would attack the convoys "and help themselves to whatever they wanted"2. Even at an early age, he noted, the need
for leadership in logistics in the Persian Gulf would be the utmost importance. He entrusted Pagonis for the job, and he came through in flying colors for his expertise in
logistics and his management skills. Pagonis has been able to translate his success in logistics in the field to the corporate world as well, which is where Druckers analysis comes
in. Drucker, for the most part, has believed that "one cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it3. This sets
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