Managing the Dream

by Bennis, Warren G.

• ISBN13: 9780738203324
• ISBN10: 0738203327
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-14
• Publisher: Basic Books

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)
Managing the Dream	3	(10)
The Four Competencies of Leadership	13	(12)
On the Leading Edge of Change	25	(6)
Change: The New Metaphysics	31	(8)
Information Overload Anxiety (and how to overcome it)	39	(12)
Cope with Speed and Complexity (Raplexity)	51	(4)
The Leadership Advantage	55	(10)
Part 2: Organizing the Dream: Social Architecture for the New Global Village	65	(122)
Is Democracy Inevitable?	67	(22)
The Coming Death of Bureaucracy	89	(14)
Corporate Boards	103	(10)
Our Federalist Future	113	(22)
The Secrets of Great Groups	135	(8)
The End of Leadership	143	(18)
Paradigm Shifts	161	(6)
The Case for Co-Leaders	167	(20)
Part 3: Embodying the Dream: Lessons in Character	187	(122)
An Invented Life	189	(38)
The Years of Scholarship: An Intellectual Memoir	227	(22)
The Wallenda Factor	249	(4)
When to Resign	253	(16)
Followership	269	(4)
The Leader as Storyteller	273	(10)
Operating on Instinct	283	(12)
Postscript: The Future Has No Shelf Life	295	(14)
Index	309