Managing the Dream: Reflections on Leadership and Change - Softcover

Bennis, Warren G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738203327 ISBN 13: 9780738203324

Publisher: Basic Books, 2000

Synopsis

Warren Bennis has become synonymous with leadership, exploring all its dimensions as both practitioner and scholar for over four decades. Managing the Dream is an intimate portrait of leadership, comprising over a dozen essays that represent the author's most incisive and creative thinking. It features many of Bennis's most recent works, including "The End of Leadership," and a new preface reflecting on the challenge of leadership in the new millennium.

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About the Author:

Warren Bennis is Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California and a consultant to multinational companies and governments around the world. He also chairs the Advisory Board of the Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University. He is author of more than thirty books and dozens of other articles on leadership, including Managing the Dream, Organizing Genius, and Learning to Lead. He lives in Santa Monica, California.

Review:

" Warren Bennis has truly achieved wisdom in the field of leadership so it is wonderful to see a collection of his works that enables us all to share his marvelous insights. This will be a very important book." -- Edgar H. Schein, MIT Sloan School of Management

"Managing the Dream is the ultimate distillation of Bennis's incredible oeuvre on leadership. Brilliance and wisdom sparkle on every page. In these wonderfully written essays, Bennis probes relentlessly to uncover the complexities, the dangers, the anguish, and the exhilaration of leadership. No one does it better!" -- Jean Lipman-Blumen, Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University

"Bennis's lifelong quest to hold things together in the face of uncertainty is consolidated in these essays. Their vividness and humanity compel readers to keep that quest alive." -- Karl E. Weick,, University of Michigan

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0738203327
• ISBN 13: 9780738203324
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 317