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Warren Bennis

Born

in New York, NY, The United States

March 08, 1925

Died

July 31, 2014

Genre

Nonfiction, Self Help, Business

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Warren Gamaliel Bennis is an American scholar, organizational consultant and author, widely regarded as a pioneer of the contemporary field of Leadership Studies. Bennis is University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration and Founding Chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California.

“His work at MIT in the 1960s on group behavior foreshadowed -- and helped bring about -- today's headlong plunge into less hierarchical, more democratic and adaptive institutions, private and public,” management expert Tom Peters wrote in 1993 in the foreword to Bennis’ An Invented Life: Reflections on Leadership and Change.

Management expert James O’Toole, in a 2005 issue of Compass, published by Harvard ...more

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	On Becoming a Leader 3.89 avg rating — 5,390 ratings — published 1989 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration 3.77 avg rating — 494 ratings — published 1997 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor 3.75 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 2008 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	leaders by Warren Bennis, Burt Nanus 3.88 avg rating — 304 ratings — published 1985 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader 3.69 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 1994 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Geeks and Geezers by Warren Bennis, Robert J. Thomas 3.68 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 2002 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why Leaders Can't Lead: The Unconscious Conspiracy Continues (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series) 3.77 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1976 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership 3.74 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2010 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Managing People Is Like Herding Cats: Warren Bennis on Leadership 3.87 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1997 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leading for a Lifetime: How Defining Moments Shape Leaders of Today and Tomorrow by Warren Bennis, Robert J. Thomas 3.88 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.”
― Warren Bennis, Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

tags: leadership, management

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“Managers do things right. Leaders do the right thing.”
― Warren G. Bennis

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“Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.”
― Warren Bennis, Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

tags: dreamers, leadership

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