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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.4
EAN: 9780738208176
ISBN: 0738208175
Label: Basic Books
Manufacturer: Basic Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2003-04
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date: April 01, 2003
Sales Rank: 6233
Studio: Basic Books
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Product Description:
With a new introduction by the authorWarren Bennis's formative years, in the 1930s and '40s, were characterized by severe economic hardship and a world war that showcased the extreme depths and heights to which leaders could drive their followers. Today's environment is similarly chaotic, turbulent, and uncertain. On Becoming a Leader has served for nearly fifteen years as a beacon of insight, delving into the qualities that define leadership, the people who exemplify it, and the strategies that anyone can apply to become an effective leader. This new edition features a provocative introduction on the challenges and opportunities facing leaders today, with additional updates and current references throughout.
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I am disappointed by Warren's attitude and mindset in his introduction for this book. I was required to purchase this for a graduate level course and thus am going to read it against my better judgment. I have only read the introduction thus far, but am already very apparent of his liberal bias and distaste for the corporate world. He is very judgmental of corporate leaders and questions their worth. He mentions how they make 300 times the salary of the average worker ($30,000) and have an annual ... Read More
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Maybe it's because this book has influenced so many others after it, but I didn't find anything new here. Leaders have different styles; they set strategic directions; they respond to chaos with clarity of mind. OK, but not much an aspiring leader can take away from it with.
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In my book, The Three Pillars of Sustainable Profit & Growth The Three Pillars of Sustainable Profit and Growth, I state that the best all-encompassing definition of leadership that I ever came across was from the book Leaders by Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus: "The leaders have a positive self-regard called `emotional wisdom.' This is characterized by an ability to accept people as they are; a capacity to approach things only in terms of the present; an ability to treat everyone, even close contacts, ... Read More
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I recommend this book solely on the merits of its influence. For decades, it has served as a core reference to the study of leadership. Staying power earns the book a place on my personal bibliography, but not an endorsement of its philosphy. Reading it has helped me appreciate many modern schools of thought on leadership, and for that purpose I found it beneficial.
There are gems of insight that punctuate the text, and occur most often when Mr. Bennis remains focused on the principles of leadership. ... Read More
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"On Becoming a Leader" is best described as an in depth devotional that evokes reflection on leadership. This book, as other studies of leadership, cannot be considered a science because it is not falsifiable. Bennis does not present any data, in statistical or case study form, which demonstrated that his theory was of benefit to a significant number of the leaders he described a priori. His approach is to find successful leaders and describe, in hindsight, what made them great. He depends exclusively, and ad ... Read More
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