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The purpose of this chapter lies in outlining the key objectives of President Lee Myung-bak’s vision of green growth and some major challenges that need to be overcome. Ultimately, the Korean government intends to create a partnership with the advocates of “green” and the advocates of “growth” to promote more balanced and sustainable growth. Within the historical context of authoritarian leadership behind Korea’s Heavy and Chemical Industry drive during the 1960s, we note that the transition from authoritarian to authoritative governance also bears significance in how the green growth story rolls out. In this sense, Korea’s green growth story is unique in two aspects: one, it was a conscious effort by the Lee administration to initiate a “green” spiral; two, the multiple ambitious objectives pursued by the government—energy security, economic growth, and emissions reduction—are aligned to sustain the push for greener growth.

The chapter focuses on how leadership was taught in the distant and recent past. The first section is on five of the greatest leadership teachers ever—Lao-tzu, Confucius, Plato, Plutarch, and Machiavelli—who shared a deep belief in the idea that leadership could be taught and left legacies that included timeless and transcendent literary masterworks. The second section explores how leadership went from being conceived of as a practice reserved only for a select few to one that could be exercised by the many. The ideas of the Enlightenment changed our conception of leadership. Since then, the leadership literature has urged people without power and authority, that is, followers, to understand that they too could be agents of change. The third section turns to leadership and management in business. It was precisely the twentieth-century failure of business schools to make management a profession that gave rise to the twenty-first-century leadership industry.

This chapter examines the military course of the June Days of 1848 and the nature and tactical lessons of the French government's struggle against the insurrection. The June Days were a deliberate, premeditated confrontation about the social and economic future of France, but unlike in the February Days, barricades were virtually nonexistent. The June struggle involved prosperous artisans and socialists of all classes who fought without any personal stake in the future of the National Workshops. This chapter begins with an overview of the high command that directed the military repression of June, including the protégés of the war minister, Eugène Cavaignac. It then considers the government plans and preparations for the insurrection and goes on to discuss the initial skirmishes and the extent of the insurrection, the problem of government leadership, the victory of the government forces over the rebels, and the persistence of civil disorders in Paris despite the end of the insurrection.