GETTYSBURG
     Oriented around the film Gettysburg, which is based on the historically accurate novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, this case study deals with the largest and most deadly battle ever fought onAmerican soil.  It reveals much about leadership - successful and unsuccessful.  It is during the Civil War that the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania became the site of what is seen by many to be the war's turning point.  The three day battle, which took place from July 1st to 3rd 1863, is best known for Pickett's Charge, a magnificent feat of individual courage and a terrible waste of life.  The Civil War itself involved the development of industrial war, a war of ideas fought as a total war involving economics and politics as well as military strategy and certainly leadership.  The war was only won when the Union appointed its first great modern generals, Grant and Sherman.  They took the field against Robert E. Lee, the last and to many, the greatest old-fashioned general .  We will meet Lee at Gettysburg to see how several leadership issues come to light.  Why did the Union and Confederate armies meet at Gettysburg?  Why did they fight?  How were they led?  How was this battle to become a picture of what came next - a deadly mirror for all that was greatest and most troubling in American democracy?

 
Topics Include: Crisis Management, Strategy, Risk, Continuity 
                           and Discontinuity, Decision Making, 
                           Organizational Planning, Unity and Plurality, 
                           Autonomy and Heteronomy

Theories Covered: Risk Management, Risk Takers and Risk
                                Averters, Decision-Making Procedures, 
                                Prospect Theory, Myopic Loss Aversion, 
                                Leadership and Organizational Planning, 
                                Leadership in Strategy Implementation, 
                                The Language of Leadership, Kelley's 
                                 Followership Styles, Suboptimization, Hersey 
                                and Blanchard's Theory

VHS Information: 1993, rated PG, approximately 254 minutes on 
                               2 cassettes, color

DVD Information: 1993, rated PG, approximately 254 minutes on 
                               1 double-sided DVD, color, Region 1 Encoding

Case Study Length: 49 pages        Teaching Note Length: 47 pages

Case Study: F-438 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$3.95
Teaching Note: F-438-TN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$9.95
DVD: F-438-DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $34.95 (available February 2004)
DVD Teaching Kit: F-438-TK-DVD . . . . . . . . . . .$44.95(available February 2004)
includes case study, teaching note and DVD

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