Research Catalog

Title

The temporary society / Warren Bennis, Philip Slater.

Author

Bennis, Warren G.

Publication

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 1998.

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Additional Authors

Slater, Philip E. (Philip Elliot), 1927-2013.

Description

xviii, 170 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• Here, readers will examine the implications of a world in which capitalism has become the primary economic model, in which freelance and contingent work arrangements predominate, where families struggle to reconcile home life and career, and governments take a backseat to the forces of global commerce. And the amazing part is that The Temporary Society was first published thirty years ago.
• In these six essays - including "Democracy Is Inevitable," originally published in the Harvard Business Review - renowned business pundit Warren Bennis and Brandeis sociologist Philip Slater presented a take on the future that struck most of their contemporaries as being too farfetched. But in the years since, their predictions have materialized with uncanny accuracy, and Bennis has gone on to become one of today's most widely respected business thinkers.
• Now, in this thirtieth anniversary edition of their seminal work, Bennis and Slater team up again to reflect on the events of the last three decades and look forward to the changes ahead.

Series Statement

The Jossey-Bass business & management series

Uniform Title

Jossey-Bass business & management series.

Subject

• United States > Social conditions > 1945-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-157) and index.

Contents

1. Democracy Is Inevitable -- 2. Social Change and the Democratic Family -- 3. Beyond Bureaucracy -- 4. Some Social Consequences of Temporary Systems -- 5. New Patterns of Leadership for Adaptive Organizations -- 6. The Temporary Society.

ISBN

0787943312 (acid free paper)

LCCN

98019731

OCLC

ocm39060579

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries