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Stand Your Ground Building Honorable Leaders the West Point Way
Evan H. Offstein
ISBN: 0-313-37494-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-37494-4
176 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/20/2009
List Price: $19.95 (UK Sterling Price: £13.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • "[O]ne of the most relevant and applicable responses to recent leadership breakdowns at such places as Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, and Abu Ghraib. . . . Stand Your Ground delivers a message that began with our founding fathers, but which has been silenced in the last several years. In Stand Your Ground, Offstein provides compelling evidence that true leadership is first built on honor and that future leadership lapses well chronicled in the recent episodes occurring at Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, and GlobalCrossing, could never again occur if West Point's model of honorable leadership development is followed. Given the almost limitless amount of leadership books that offer hollow promises and which have accomplished little to improve our current state of leadership, Offstein's Stand Your Ground stands apart as one of the choice few books capable of transforming leaders at all levels and across organizations."
    —PR Newswire US     September 13, 2006
  • "Drawing on research he conducted at the United States Military Academy at West Point and with business leaders in a variety of industries, Offstein gives access to the process of leadership development at West Point and offers insights that can be applied in any type of organization that strives to operate on the principle of integrity."
    —Reference & Research Book News     November 2006
Description: Management professor and West Point graduate Evan Offstein approached leaders at the U.S. Military Academy and the Department of the Army with two primary questions: How does West Point develop its leaders? Can other individuals and organizations apply these principles effectively? Two years and dozens of interviews later, he offers unprecedented access to the process of leadership development at West Point. With an explicit mission to produce honorable leaders, West Point invests heavily in mentoring, training, and evaluation to ensure the character development of its 4,000 cadets. From Robert E. Lee to Edwin E. Buzz Aldrin to basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, West Point has groomed leaders whose contributions far exceed the successful management of their immediate charges. By illuminating the principles by which West Point teaches leadership, Stand Your Ground not only provides a unique tour behind the scenes at this revered institution, but, more generally, imparts lessons of honor and character-building that can be adopted by any aspiring leader.

West Point is the ideal laboratory for studying the dynamics of character, honor, and leadership. It operates a comprehensive honor education and enforcement program that has been subjected to rigorous Congressional scrutiny. It builds all of its academic, athletic, and military programs on this bedrock of honor.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    Introduction: The Benchmark
    Secure the High Ground
    Wash Away the Gray
    Be Big about Small Things
    Go All In!
    Who's Got Your Back?
    Imagine That
    Views from the Top
    Appendix 1: Research Methodology
    Appendix 2: West Point Fact Sheet
    Notes
    Index
About the Author: Evan H. Offstein is Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at Frostburg State University. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and a former military intelligence officer, he also served as an Instructor in the Department of Management, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR). He has published articles on leadership, management, and corporate competitiveness in such journals as Business Communication Quarterly, the Journal of Managerial Psychology, the Journal of Engineering and Technology Management and Human Resource Management Review.
LCC Class: 658
PDF Catalogs:
Academic Library Spring 2009.pdf
Business Catalog 2008.pdf
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