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THE FALL OF THE LAST ANGLO-SAXON KING: A CASE OF LEADERSHIP FAILURE DURING A CRISIS
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CASE DESCRIPTION
The process of Crisis Management can be broken out into three distinct phases: pre-crisis preparation, dealing with the crisis itself, and learning from the ordeal after the crisis is over. While the study of all phases is important, this case examines the most crucial phase, the actual crisis itself. The case describes the Battle of Hastings, placing emphasis on the decisions made by Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England. First the events leading up t...
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The fall of the last Anglo-Saxon King: a case of leadership failure during a crisis.(CASES)(Harold Godwinson)(Case study)
Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies
; CASE DESCRIPTION The process of Crisis Management can be broken out into three distinct phases: pre-crisis preparation, dealing with the crisis itself, and learning from the ordeal after the crisis is over. While the study of all phases is important, this case examines the most crucial phase, the
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THE FALL OF THE LAST ANGLO-SAXON KING: A CASE OF LEADERSHIP FAILURE DURING A CRISIS
Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies
; ... Harold Godwinson, and other case elements. MBA students should be required to do some additional research, such as locating maps of the battle, developing a profile of Harold, or finding analysis that supports their answers to the discussion questions. In ...
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The fall of the last Anglo-Saxon King: a case of leadership failure during a crisis.(CASES)(Case study)
Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies
; ... Harold Godwinson, and other case elements. MBA students should be required to do some additional research, such as locating maps of the battle, developing a profile of Harold, or finding analysis that supports their answers to the discussion questions. In ...
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SHORT TAKES
The Boston Globe
; This jaunty historical novel returns us to the primal scene of English history: Oct. 14, 1066, the day when the armies of Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king, already depleted from holding off a Norse invasion, were bloodily defeated at Hastings by Duke William of Normandy, come across the
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 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Heroes & Villains: Magnus Mills on King Harold; The best-selling novelist (below) on the hero of 1066 and all that.(Features)
The Independent (London, England)
; ... as quickly as possible, which it seems they did. Within days news arrived that the King of Norway had sailed up the River Humber ... south coast, and it was now this individual's duty to convey the news to Harold, who was still recovering after the battle in Yorkshire ...
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 "The Journal (Newcastle, England)")
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Wednesday forum.(News)
The Journal (Newcastle, England)
; Byline: By Dr Alexander Waugh The English Heritage appeal to track down the descendants of those who might have been crowned King of England if William the Conqueror had lost the Battle of Hastings in 1066 gave The Journal a front page lead story. What set me thinking, however, was the description
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1066 and all that made the difference.(News)
The Journal (Newcastle, England)
; If William the Conqueror had not won the Battle of Hastings the Royal family would look very different today. The conflict over the rightful heir to the English throne began in 1066 following the death of childless Edward the Confessor. His great-nephew Edgar the Aetheling, known as the lost king
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The Forlorn Supremacy
Philadelphia Weekly
; ON THE RADAR It's the necromancy, stupid. In England we settled our head of state question once and for all back in 1066 when French Viking psycho William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy, did a reverse D-Day, landed in Southern England, stuck an arrow in the eye of Danish Viking psycho Harold
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Anglo-Saxon attitudes
The Spectator
; Kenneth Fowler THE LAST ENGLISH KING by Julian Rathbone Little, Brown, 16.99, pp. 381 Few events in English history have impressed themselves upon the national consciousness more than 1066 `and all that'. William of Normandy's victory at Hastings, as things turned out, was one of the battles which
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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