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Nevil Shute: Pastoral

In: Fictional Leaders

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  • David Weir

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In this chapter we offer an account of the career and contribution of Nevil Shute Norway, best-selling novelist, pioneering aircraft designer, an airship engineer who took over as Chief Design Engineer from the great Barnes Wallis on the successful R100 Airship that flew safely from the UK to Canada and back, youngest fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and entrepreneur and founder of his own highly successful air-craft manufacturing company. He wrote of managers and leaders in his novels and he outlined a theory of industrial leadership in his memoirs in which he carefully distinguished two types of manager, the ‘starter’ and the ‘runner’, identifying himself as a ‘starter’ who could initiate new ventures but would tire of the chores of diurnal management. As engineer, CEO and novelist, Nevil Shute breaks the mould of the banal stereotypes of leadership that inhabit our textbooks.

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  • David Weir, 2013. "Nevil Shute: Pastoral," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Fictional Leaders, chapter 5, pages 87-98, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-27275-1_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137272751_6
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    1. Christopher J. Napier, 2017. "The Good Fraud: Accounting, Finance and Banking in a 1930s English Novel," CONTABILIT? E CULTURA AZIENDALE, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2017(2), pages 43-70.

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