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The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management (J-B Warren Bennis ...

7 reviews
Art Kleiner

Jossey-Bass, 2008

Inquiry and Inquisition
Never judge a book by its cover - particularly its blurb. On first glance, The Age of Heretics seems askew, a tract on business revolution for "corporate leaders" interested in anything but. It purportedly chronicles the "recreation" of institutions, an eccentric term when left unhyphenated. It's described in alarming code words, such as "magisterial" (read, "long"). Why would anyone bother ...

Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls

18 reviews
Noel M. Tichy, Warren G. Bennis

Portfolio Hardcover, 2007

A very useful framework for thinking through judgment and leadership
If you are a manager who wants to develop the skills of executive management, this book is for you. The authors provide a methodology that is not simple, but still quite understandable. It would be ideal for a course of MBA or Executive MBA students wanting to get a framework for decision making. The book has 13 chapters and then a handbook. The handbook is designed to help you take the ...

The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All

17 reviews
Michael Useem

Three Rivers Press, 1999

Great leadership stories!
As part of an assignment for a Leadership/Small Group Communication course, I was directed to select the book of my choice from an Amazon book search under the topic of leadership. After poring through the descriptions of just a few of the 116,000 books in this category, I quickly identified the type of book I was looking for. I wanted something less academic/theoretical and more real life. I ...

On Becoming a Leader: The Leadership Classic

29 reviews
Warren Bennis

Basic Books, 2003

Self mastery and spiritual journey
"On Becoming a Leader" is best described as an in depth devotional that evokes reflection on leadership. This book, as other studies of leadership, cannot be considered a science because it is not falsifiable. Bennis does not present any data, in statistical or case study form, which demonstrated that his theory was of benefit to a significant number of the leaders he described a priori. His ...

Organizing Genius

27 reviews
Warren Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman

Basic Books, 1998

Successful Structures for Super Team Perfomance
This is an informative book on leadership qualities and insights by Warren Bennis, who is a distinguished professor of business administration at USC, and who has also advised at least four presidents. Bennis discusses four organizations that were able to combine incredibly gifted people in such a synergy as to create hitherto unknown super-accomplishments: Walt Disney Studios with the first ...

Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor (J-B Warren Bennis Series)

5 reviews
Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman, ...

Jossey-Bass, 2008

"Technologies change. Human nature doesn't."
Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman, and James O'Toole are three of the most influential business thinkers in recent years and, with Patricia Ward Biederman, collaborated on this book that consists of three separate but related essays: "Creating a Culture of Candor" (Bennis, Goleman, and Biederman examine transparency with and between organizations), "Speaking Truth to Power" (O'Toole shares his ...

Resolving Conflicts at Work: Eight Strategies for Everyone on the Job
Kenneth Cloke, Joan Goldsmith

Jossey-Bass, 2005

Here is a completely updated edition of the best-selling Resolving Conflicts at Work. This definitive and comprehensive work provides a handy guide for resolving conflicts, miscommunications, and misunderstandings at work and outlines the authors’ eight strategies that show how the inevitable disputes and divisions in the workplace actually provide an opportunity for greater creativity, productivity, enhanced morale, and personal growth. ...

Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader

10 reviews
Warren Bennis

Basic Books, 2003

Be a True Leader!
If you really want to know the correct way to lead your people, buy this book. It will change your life!

Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge (Collins Business Essentials)

3 reviews
Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus

Collins Business, 2003

A Great One!
Of all the books I have read on leadership, I will have to put this one in the top five. Bennis and Nanus have masterly laid out the essential principles of leaders and have also substantiated them with poignant examples. Their revision is greatly welcome by those of us who enjoy reading leadership literature. I highly recommend this book.

Geeks and Geezers

12 reviews
Warren G. Bennis, Robert J. Thomas

Harvard Business School Press, 2002

Out of the Crucible of Life comes Leadership
Geeks & Geezers by Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas is about how Era, Values, and Defining Moments Shape Leaders. And it does an excellent job of pointing out the differences between our generations. This Harvard Business School Press publication is definitely useful in understanding the way folks in my parents' generation (the Geezers) react to those in my children's generation (Geek) . ...

The Power of Truth: A Leading with Emotional Intelligence Conversation with Warren Bennis
Daniel Goleman, Warren Bennis

Macmillan Audio, 2006

Introducing an Important New Series of Original Audiobooks: The ideas expressed in Emotional Intelligence ten years ago have taken on a life of their own. They spurred a movement, with enthusiastic adherents in the business world, in medicine and healthcare, at home, in the field of education and the world at large. Several million people, including business managers, human resource departments, healthcare workers, teachers, ...

Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits (J-B Warren ...

18 reviews
Robert C. Townsend, Warren Bennis

Jossey-Bass, 2007

A truly polemical business classic that retains its sharp edge 30 years on
This is a reprint edition of the classic business text by Robert Townsend. While it is largely like the original 1970 edition, it also includes material from the 1971 paperback version. Townsend made his biggest mark as CEO of Avis Rent-a-Car and the famous "We Try Harder" slogan. He became an early business media star and his sharp observations and criticisms of fat-cat management resonated ...

Why Leaders Can't Lead: The Unconscious Conspiracy Continues

4 reviews
Warren Bennis

Jossey-Bass, 1997

One of the most exciting books I have ever read!
Warren Bennis has a talent for being able to see and articulate the "big picture" problems that are plaguing the majority of organizations today. He uses many, many examples to show cause and effect relationships between poor leadership and organizational health. He is an outspoken fan of creativity, vision, trust and momentum within the work force and exegetic in his treatment of ...

The Future of Leadership: Today's Top Leadership Thinkers Speak to Tomorrow's Leaders

4 reviews
Thomas Cummings

Jossey-Bass, 2001

Great edition of diverse thinking on leadership
This work is a tribute to Warren Bennis, a celebration of his career. In praising him, he challenged those around him to address issues that continue to interest and perplex him. And, despite his years of experience and two million books of his own in print, the questions that remain are often simple and profound. Answering these questions are top researchers, professors, commentators and ...

Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead the People Who Deliver Technology

23 reviews
Paul Glen, David H. Maister, ...

Jossey-Bass, 2002

Great for helping non-technical managers understand technical teams
If you're an IT manager, you should definitely have (and read!) a copy of the excellent book "Leading Geeks" by Paul Glen. It talks a lot about "common traits" of folks who are drawn to technology work, and what they mean from a management point of view, including how to leverage those traits to your team's advantage, rather than fighting an uphill battle against them. IT managers who read ...

Douglas McGregor, Revisited: Managing the Human Side of the Enterprise

6 reviews
Gary Heil, Warren Bennis, ...

Wiley, 2000

Irresistible Retrospective on Managers Lacking Introspection
When I was in business school (back in the Dark Ages), McGregor was considered the finest thinker about organizational behavior. He grasped that behavioral science offered great promise for making organizations more effective and more desirable places to be. Everyone was excited about the potential of his assumptions about people in the workplace: Employees want to do a good job; they will ...

Linkage Inc.'s Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook: Case Studies, Instruments, Training (A ...
Warren G. Bennis

Pfeiffer, 2000

How are the world's most successful organizations developing their leaders? "This book will help anyone who is charged with a leadership development initiative or is learning about leadership development. Full of practical examples and tools from companies that are known for having a reputation for developing leaders." Michael Piergrossi; vice president, leadership and organization development, W. R. Grace & Co. Using the case studies in ...

Leading for a Lifetime: How Defining Moments Shape Leaders of Today and Tomorrow

2 reviews
Warren G. Bennis, Robert J. Thomas

Harvard Business School Press, 2007

"Crucibles" That Create Exceptional Leaders of All Ages
Note: This is a revised and updated reissue of Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas' previously published Geeks & Geezers. The review that follows is of that book whose insights are essentially the same in the reissue. I have read all and reviewed most of the books which Bennis has authored or co-authored. My opinion is that this is the most thought-provoking as yet produced by the ...

Moral Leadership: The Theory and Practice of Power, Judgment and Policy (J-B Warren Bennis Series)

Jossey-Bass, 2006

Moral Leadership brings together in one comprehensive volume essays from leading scholars in law, leadership, psychology, political science, and ethics to provide practical, theoretical policy guidance. The authors explore key questions about moral leadership such as: How do leaders form, sustain, and transmit moral commitments? Under what conditions are those processes most effective? What is the impact of ethics ...

Harvard Business Review on Developing Leaders (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)

1 review
Chris Argyris, Warren G. Bennis, ...

Harvard Business School Press, 2004

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