Research Catalog

Title

The essential Bennis / Warren Bennis ; with Patricia Ward Biederman ; foreword by Charles Handy.

Author

Bennis, Warren G.

Publication

San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, [2009], ©2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Biederman, Patricia Ward.

Description

xi, 465 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Leadership
• Management

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Charles Handy -- Introduction / Warren Bennis -- Pt. 1. My Life as a Leader -- An Invented Life: Shoe Polish, Milli Vanilli, and Sapiential Circles (1993) -- Martin Kaplan on "An Invented Life: Shoe Polish, Milli Vanilli, and Sapiential Circles" -- The Berkeley of the East (1973) and What Went Wrong (1973) -- Patricia Ward Biederman on "The Berkeley of the East" and "What Went Wrong" -- Searching for the "Perfect" University President (1971) -- Steven B. Sample on "Searching for the 'Perfect' University President" -- Foreword to The Age of Heretics (2008) -- Pt. 2. How Organizations Create or Thwart Leaders -- Democracy Is Inevitable (1964, 1990, 1998) -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter on "Democracy Is Inevitable" -- The Coming Death of Bureaucracy (1966, 2000) -- Tom Peters on "The Coming Death of Bureaucracy" -- The End of the Great Man (1997) -- Scott Snook and Rakesh Khurana on "The End of the Great Man" -- The Pornography of Everyday Life (1976) -- Winning and Losing (1988) -- Lessons from Larry (2006) -- When to Resign (1972) -- A Corporate Fear of Too Much Truth (2002) -- James O'Toole on "When to Resign" and "A Corporate Fear of Too Much Truth" -- March of Folly Redux: Iraq (2003) -- Pt. 3. On Becoming a Leader -- Learning Some Basic Truisms About Leadership (1976, 1996) -- Understanding the Basics (1989, 2003) -- Frances Hesselbein on "Understanding the Basics" -- Deploying Yourself: Strike Hard, Try Everything (1989) -- Judgment Trumps Experience (2007) -- The Crucibles of Authentic Leadership (2004) -- Susan Nero on "The Crucibles of Authentic Leadership" -- The Alchemy of Leadership (2002) -- Howard Gardner on "The Alchemy of Leadership" -- Epilogue to the Twentieth-Anniversary Edition of On Becoming a Leader (2009) -- David Gergen on "Epilogue to the Twentieth-Anniversary Edition of On Becoming a Leader" -- Pt. 4. Leadership as Performance -- The Seven Ages of the Leader (2004) -- Sidney Harman on "The Seven Ages of the Leader" -- The Leader as Storyteller (1996) -- Peter Guber on "The Leader as Storyteller" -- Leadership as a Performing Art (2002) -- Glenn Close on "Leadership as a Performing Art" -- Pt. 5. Cultivating the Leader in Others -- The Challenges of Leadership in the Modern World (2007) -- Bill George on "The Challenges of Leadership in the Modern World" -- How Business Schools Lost Their Way (2005) -- Joel M. Podolny on "How Business Schools Lost Their Way" -- The End of Leadership (1999) -- Introduction to The Art of Followership (2008) -- Followers Make Good Leaders Good (1989) -- Jean Lipman-Blumen on "Introduction to The Art of Followership" and "Followers Make Good Leaders Good" -- Pt. 6. Leadership and the Media -- The Age of Unreality (1989) -- News Analysis: It's the Culture (2003) -- Geneva Overholser on "News Analysis: It's the Culture" -- The New Transparency (2008) -- Geoff Cowan on "The New Transparency"

ISBN

• 9780470432396 (cloth)
• 047043239X (cloth)

LCCN

• 2009019775
• 40017010080

OCLC

• ocn310400253
• 310400253
• SCSB-9034347

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries