Warren Bennis

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Warren Bennis is a lecturer, management and leadership theorist and writer. He is currently University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business and Founding Chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California. He is also Visiting Professor of Leadership at the University of Exeter and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (UK). He has written 27 books, including the best-selling Leaders and On Becoming a Leader, both translated into 21 languages. The Financial Times recently names Leaders as one of the top 50 business books of all time. In 1993 Addison-Wesley published a book of his essays An Invented Life: Reflections on Leadership and Change, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and Jossey-Bass just republished an updated version of his 1968 path-breaking book, The Temporary Society, co-authored with Phil Slater. Almost two million copies of his books are in print. His latest books, Organizing Genius, 1997, Co-Leaders, 1999 and Managing the Dream, 2000, summarize Bennis’ major concerns: Leadership, Change, and Creative Collaboration.

Bennis has not only studied and reflected on leadership, he has also done it, first as the youngest infantry commander fighting in Germany at age 20, decorated with the Bronze Star and Purple Heart and then as President of the University of Cincinnati from 1971-97.

He has served on the faculty of MIT’s Sloan School of Management where he was Chairman of the Organizational Studies Department. He is a former faculty member of Harvard and Boston University, former provost and Executive Vice President of State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the chairman of the board of directors at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government's Center for Public Leadership.He has served on the boards of The American Chamber of Commerce, Claremont University Center and currently serves on the board of the Salk Institute. Bennis has consulted for many Fortune 500 companies and has been an adviser to four presidents of the United States, including both John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.The Wall Street Journal named him as one of the top ten speakers on management in 1993 and in 1996, Forbes magazine referred to him as the "Dean of Leadership Gurus".

He has written over 27 books on the topic of leadership, consulted and lectured all over the world.

Quotes

  • Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing.-"On Becoming a leader"
  • The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
  • The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -- that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
  • (In future problems will be solved by) task forces composed of relative strangers who represent a set of diverse professional skills

Bibliography

  • 'Beyond Bureaucracy: Essays on the Development and Evolution of Human Organization'
  • 'Beyond Counterfeit Leadership: How You Can Become a More Authentic Leader'
  • 'Beyond Leadership: Balancing Economics, Ethics and Ecology'
  • 'Co-Leaders: The Power of Great Partnerships'
  • 'Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge'
  • 'Managing People Is Like Herding Cats: Warren Bennis on Leadership'
  • 'Managing the Dream: Reflections on Leadership and Change'
  • 'On Becoming a Leader'
  • 'Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration'
  • 'The Unreality Industry: The Deliberate Manufacturing of Falsehood and What It Is Doing to Our Lives '
  • 'Visionary Leadership: Creating a Compelling Sense of Direction for Your Organization'
  • 'Why Leaders Can't Lead: The Unconscious Conspiracy Continues'

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