The Future of Leadership: Today's Top Leadership Thinkers Speak to Tomorrow's Leaders [Hardcover]

Warren Bennis (Editor), Gretchen M. Spreitzer (Editor), Thomas G. Cummings (Editor), Thomas Cummings (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 9, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0787955671 | ISBN-13: 978-0787955670 | Edition: 1

Provocative insights on leadership from a "who's who" of leadership thought including: Tom Peters, Charles Handy, and Jim Kouzes

A stellar cast of the world's foremost leadership gurus comes together in one place to offer their thoughts on leadership in the new economy. Edited by renowned leadership expert Warren Bennis, the book addresses issues that Bennis identifies as the ones that "keep CEOs up at night", including why we tolerate bad leaders, why leadership is everyone's business, and how ethics will play into new leadership. With contributions from Charles Handy, Tom Peters, Barry Posner, Jim Kouzes, and Warren Bennis—as well as from such young entrepreneurs as Michael Klein and Tara Church—no other book includes the caliber of authors and the range of thinking found in The Future of Leadership.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Like their colleagues above, Warren Bennis, Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Thomas G. Cummings, all professors at USC's Marshall School of Business, have puzzled over the challenges and demands facing 21st-century corporate leaders. In The Future of Leadership: Today's Top Leadership Thinkers Speak to Tomorrow's Leaders, they bring together their insights with those of other recognized leadership experts from academia and the private sector, including Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Flow) on the importance of creativity, Tom Peters (In Search of Excellence) on establishing leadership staying-power in a start-up-crazed marketplace, and Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes (coauthors of The Leadership Challenge) on the lessons of yesterday that will continue to have value tomorrow.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Warren Bennis is to leadership what Peter Drucker is to management. Both have had long, distinguished careers, and both are prolific writers. Bennis is the author or editor of 26 books on leadership, change management, and creative collaboration-- including Managing People Is like Herding Cats (1997). This new collection of essays was organized as a Festschrift to honor Bennis at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, where Bennis is a professor. Bennis starts by identifying "twelve challenging issues that leaders will need to understand and learn how to resolve if they are to succeed in tomorrow's organizations." The essayists respond by considering the organization of the future; the leader of the future; and ways in which leaders "continue to renew, energize, and develop themselves." In addition, two new "young leaders" offer their perspectives. The roster of 20 contributing luminaries includes Charles Handy, James Kouzes, Barry Posner, Tom Peters, and Mihaly Csikszentmihaly. David Rouse
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (May 9, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787955671
• ISBN-13: 978-0787955670
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #905,175 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Warren Bennis (Los Angeles, CA), born in 1925, is an American scholar, organizational consultant and author, who is widely regarded as the pioneer of the contemporary field of leadership. He is University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California. In the past decade, he served as chairman of the Advisory Board of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, working with David Gergen.
Bennis has consulted for many Fortune 500 companies and served as adviser to four U.S. presidents. He has served on the faculty of MIT's Sloan School of Management and was Chairman of the Organizational Studies Department. He is a former faculty member of Boston University, former Provost and Executive Vice President of State University of New York at Buffalo and President of the University of Cincinnati. His global experience includes teaching at the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta, INSEAD, the London Business School, and IMEDE (now IMD). In 2007, Business Week called him one of ten business school professors who have had the greatest influence on business thinking. He has received 20 honorary degrees and has served on numerous boards of advisors.
Bennis has written or edited 30 books, which have been translated into 21 languages, and many articles on three of his passions-leadership, organizational change, and creative collaboration. The Financial Times recently named Leaders as one of the top 50 business books of all time.
Bennis is proud of the four years he served in the U.S. Army, 1943-1947. At the age of 19 he was one of the youngest infantry commanders in Germany and was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. His dream remains: to write a terrific one-act play.