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Article: A Failure of Nerve.(A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix)(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Small Press Bookwatch
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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A Failure of Nerve Edwin H. Friedman Church Publishing 445 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 9781596270428, $28.00 www.churchpublishing.org 1-800-242-1918
A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix is a new edition of the Rabbi Edwin H. Friedman's seminal treatise, as relevant today as when it was first published posthumously in 1999. A Failure of Nerve examines fallacies of emotional and intellectual thinking that can bedevil leaders of individual, group, and national efforts, including the fallacy of paying too much attention to raw accumulated data; the fallacy of allowing empathy for others' feelings (normally a positive quality) to corrupt ...