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Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration Revised ed. Edition

by Warren Bennis (Author), Patricia Ward Biederman (Author)

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Uncovers the elements of creative collaboration by examining six of the century's most extraordinary groups and distill their successful practices into lessons that virtually any organization can learn and commit to in order to transform its own management into a collaborative and successful group of leaders. Paper. DLC: Organizational effectiveness - Case studies.

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Warren Bennis (1925 - 2014) was an American scholar, organizational consultant, and author, who was widely regarded as the pioneer of the contemporary field of leadership. He served as Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California, as chairman of the Advisory Board of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and as a consultant to multinational companies and governments throughout the world.

In 2007, BusinessWeek called him one of ten business school professors who have had the greatest influence on business thinking. He has received twenty honorary degrees and has served on numerous boards of advisors. He authored dozens of articles and over thirty books on leadership, including On Becoming a Leader and Organizing Genius.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Basic Books; Revised ed. edition (June 4, 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0201339897
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0201339895
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1230L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.23 x 5.46 x 0.69 inches

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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.

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Roger W. Wright
Not from instruction---but from story.
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2006
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I selected this book as a core text for the leadership development program on collaboration for my company. Bennis is simply the gold standard. In the glut of "Here's one thing that will change your life, move your cheese or fill your bucket simplistic and even dangerous books that cram the shelves and compete for our attention" this book stands out because it lucidly and clearly tells compelling stories. I don't know who Patricia Biederman is; but I'm guessing she is responsible for the clarity of the prose here. And that's reason enough to put her name on the front cover.

The responsibility I am charged with when I go to work everyday is to build leadership development that can impact business results.

This book can hel me do that because it teaches not by instruction---but by story.

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S Richardson
Excellent concept
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2013
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This is why I surround myself with capable people! I don't have to know everything - but I am smart enough to know some things and when I don't know, I do know who I can go to for a perfect answer… I'm in the field of education, and I have my "reading genius", my "assessment genius", "School improvement genius", etc. I even give them credit (suicide not to!) but I still seem (and get) brilliant because I get the perfect answer each time. I don't mean to make light of the concept - the book gives examples where surrounding yourself with capable people and cultivating that talent has worked, and I can think of few areas in life where that would not be a wise and productive thing to do.

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Suzanne L. Zemke
Organizing Genius - What Great Groups Look and Feel Like
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2010
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There are 21 key elements of great groups that I believe emerge from Bennis and Biederman's analysis. I have listed them below. While the 21 elements aren't that surprising, the book does make three surprising revelations about the elements. First, all of these 21 elements feature in all of the great groups. It would seem that you don't get a great group unless all of these conditions are met, somehow. Second, these elements are not planned and implemented top down. They seem to evolve organically from the leadership. Third, the manifestation of these key elements is not slick, fair, institutionalized or particularly attractive taken out of context. Human Resources and Senior Management are not likely to cheerfully sign off on a strategy to create these conditions. Even if they do, you probably can't implement these 21 elements top down and get a great group. That is the dilemma we are left with when we finish this book. We can see what a great group looks like but it is not certain that we can actually create one deliberately! That said, Organizing Genius is a great read, the stories are vibrant and detailed and it's a pleasure getting a little glimpse of what it was like to work on the first personal computer, Snow White and the first U.S. jet fighter. While the stories can't show you precisely how to create a great group, they will give you good idea of what a Great Group looks like and feels like and that is a big help!

Great Groups - Key Elements - A Checklist

1. A clear, tangible outcome. The best outcomes are widely recognized as important or fantastic.
2. An outrageous vision for the outcome.
3. A leader who can get people to get personally committed to the vision and the outcome.
4. Exceptionally capable people on the team - the best talent available.
5. A leader that the team respects.
6. A leader who gives the team members the information, recognition and latitude they need to deliver the outcome.
7. A leader who keeps the team focused without micro managing it.
8. A shabby workplace with access to all the equipment, materials, tools and training the team needs to deliver the outcome.
9. Team is protected from bureaucracy of the sponsor/sponsor organization.
10. The workplace enables collaboration.
11. Team is insulated from distractions.
12. There is one focus for the team - the outcome.
13. Team members have responsibilities that are aligned to their expertise, interests, and capabilities.
14. Team members are willing to work on what needs to be worked on when it needs to be worked on.
15. People don't always get along but everyone wants to achieve the outcome so this common desire transcends individual conflicts.
16. Team members know that each team member has been personally selected for the team because he or she is most able to get the job done.
17. Failure is accepted; incompetence and disloyalty is not.
18. The team has a common enemy.
19. The team believes they are on a mission from God.
20. The team doesn't realize their mission is impossible and impractical.
21. The team is physically separated from those not on the team but retains a linkage with the ultimate sponsors of the mission generally via the team leader(s).

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Valuable insights
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2013
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Despite the fact it lacks of depth in certain groups, it is an enjoyable well written book. This book is not about intended to teach how to become a leader but to have some insights of leadership and working groups that have been fantastic all over history.

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salim
Great book
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2021
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Loved it

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M. Schweitzer
Organizing Genius
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2010
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A great blueprint for success in any collaborative endeavor. Having been a part of at least three "Great Groups," as they are defined by Bennis, I can attest to the accuracy of his assessment of the qualities that are the hallmark of such groups. Especially to the point is his description of the attributes of the leaders of great groups and their lack of interest in the limelight.

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Directed Team Work Combined with Extraordinary Talents: The Formula for Exceptional Accomplishments
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2015
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Excellent book on how team work combined with extraordinary individual talents can lead to outstanding innovations and high levels of creative production.

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Argie
Not terribly useful
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2024
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Gather a bunch of smart, capable, motivated people together and get out of their way -- not a terribly useful lesson. Studying groups of highly motivated, capable, smart people who failed and why would have been a much more instructive subject.

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