Still Surprised (eBook)

A Memoir of a Life in Leadership

Warren Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (Autoren)

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2010 | 1. Auflage
256 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-94463-9 (ISBN)

Infos

An intimate look at the founding father of the modern leadership
movement Warren Bennis is an acclaimed American scholar, successful
organizational consultant and author, and an expert in the field of
leadership. His much awaited memoir is filled with insights about
the successes and failures from his long and storied life and
career. Bennis' life and career have traversed eight decades of
first-hand experience with tumultuous episodes of recent
history-from Jewish child in a gentile town in the 30's, a young
army recruit in the Battle of the Bulge to a college student in the
one of the first progressive precursors to the civil rights
movement to a patient undergoing daily psychoanalysis for five
years, and later a university provost during the Vietnam protests.

* Reveals the triumphs and struggles of the man who is considered
the pioneer in the contemporary field of leadership
studies

* Bennis is the author of 27 books including the bestseller On
Becoming a Leader

This is first book to examine the extraordinary life of Warren
Bennis by the man himself.

Autor

Warren Bennis is distinguished professor of business administration at the University of Southern California. He is chairman of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's Kennedy School. He has also served as president of the University of Cincinnati and provost of SUNY-Buffalo. He lives happily in Santa Monica with his wife, Dr. Grace Gabe.

Inhalt

PRELUDE IX

1 The Crucible of War 1

2 Launch 23

3 Rites of Passage 51

4 Great Groups 83

5 Fighting the Bull 111

6 Going State 135

7 A Year at Sea 153

8 Coming Home 173

9 The Crucible of Age 199

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 215

ABOUT THE AUTHORS 221

INDEX 223

Rezensionen

"As a wonderfully honest reporter, Warren does not hesitate to discuss his disappointments and his mistakes, personal as well as professional. Yet this book has an excitement, an energy, a joie de vivre that is inspiring. As an essentialist, I suspect that Warren was born with an ebullient temperament. And yet at the same time, I must acknowledge that Warren is at the happiest point in his life right now, because the roles that he assumed in the last twenty years-- master teacher, mentor, writer, pundit, and, yes, guru--are the ones into which he has grown. And they have made him what he is, just as surely as he excelled in them because of who he is." (Howard Gardner, The Washington Post, August 11, 2010)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.10.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: Business & Management • Management • Management f. Führungskräfte • Management f. Führungskräfte • Management / Leadership • Wirtschaft u. Management
• ISBN-10: 0-470-94463-3 / 0470944633
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-94463-9 / 9780470944639