Managing the Dream
by Bennis, Warren G.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-07-14
Publisher(s): Basic Books
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Summary
Warren Bennis has become synonymous with leadership, exploring all its dimensions as both practitioner and scholar for over four decades.Managing the Dreamis 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.
Author Biography
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.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ix | ||||
| Preface | xiii | ||||
| Introduction: The Dreams---and Nightmares---of Leaders | xvii | ||||
| Part 1: Negotiating the Dream: Lessons in the Art of Leading | 1 | (64) | |||
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3 | (10) | |||
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13 | (12) | |||
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25 | (6) | |||
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31 | (8) | |||
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39 | (12) | |||
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51 | (4) | |||
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55 | (10) | |||
| Part 2: Organizing the Dream: Social Architecture for the New Global Village | 65 | (122) | |||
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67 | (22) | |||
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89 | (14) | |||
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103 | (10) | |||
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113 | (22) | |||
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135 | (8) | |||
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143 | (18) | |||
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161 | (6) | |||
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167 | (20) | |||
| Part 3: Embodying the Dream: Lessons in Character | 187 | (122) | |||
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189 | (38) | |||
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227 | (22) | |||
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249 | (4) | |||
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253 | (16) | |||
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269 | (4) | |||
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273 | (10) | |||
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283 | (12) | |||
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295 | (14) | |||
| Index | 309 |
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