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ABSTRACT
Winston
Churchill is, rightly, hailed as a great war-leader. In 1940, when the
German armies were all-powerful, and an invasion of Great Britain seemed
imminent, morale in Great Britain was slipping. Churchill, with nothing
more than his speeches, managed to inspire the nation and prevent a
collapse of morale. That he was able to do this is remarkable. Contrary
to common belief, he was not a “great commoner”, he was a maverick
politician who was far from the mainstream, and far from trusted. The
person of Winston Churchill can hardly have been inspiring. To
understand how Churchill nevertheless managed to rally the nation, his
speeches are analysed from the viewpoint of Saul Alinsky’s “rules for
radicals”, a method of action devised to empower powerless communities.
Churchill used many of Alinsky’s rules, and this, rather than supposed
inspirational leadership capabilities of Churchill, explains why he
could influence morale in Great Britain.
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Hoogenboezem, J. (2015) Churchill’s Radical War Leadership. Open Journal of Leadership, 4, 1-11. doi: 10.4236/ojl.2015.41001.
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