The Essential Bennis

<p>Foreword (Charles Handy)</p>
<p>Introduction (Warren Bennis)</p>
<p>Part 1: My Life as a Leader</p>
<p>An Invented Life: Shoe Polish, Milli Vanilli, and Sapiential Circles (1971, 1993)</p>
<p>Martin Kaplan on An Invented Life </p>
<p>Berkeley of the East and What Went Wrong (1973)</p>
<p>Patricia Ward Biederman on The Berkeley of the East and What Went Wrong </p>
<p>Searching for the Perfect University President (1971)</p>
<p>Steven B. Sample on Searching for the ′Perfect′ University President </p>
<p>Foreword to The Age of Heretics (2008)</p>
<p>Part 2: How Organizations Create or Thwart Leaders</p>
<p>Democracy Is Inevitable (1964, 1990, 1998)</p>
<p>Rosabeth Moss Kanter on Democracy Is Inevitable </p>
<p>The Coming Death of Bureaucracy (1966, 2000)</p>
<p>Tom Peters on The Coming Death of Bureaucracy </p>
<p>The End of the Great Man (1997)</p>
<p>Scott Snook and Rakesh Khurana on The End of the Great Man </p>
<p>The Pornography of Everyday Life (1976)</p>
<p>Winning and Losing (1988)</p>
<p>Lessons from Larry (2006)</p>
<p>When to Resign (1972)</p>
<p>A Corporate Fear of Too Much Truth (2002)</p>
<p>James O′Toole on When to Resign and A Corporate Fear of Too Much Truth </p>
<p>March of Folly Redux: Iraq (2003)</p>
<p>Part 3: On Becoming a Leader</p>
<p>Learning Some Basic Truisms About Leadership (1989, 1996)</p>
<p>Understanding the Basics (1989, 2003)</p>
<p>Frances Hesselbein on Understanding the Basics </p>
<p>Deploying Yourself: Strike Hard, Try Everything (1989)</p>
<p>Judgment Trumps Experience (2007)</p>
<p>The Crucibles of Leadership (2004)</p>
<p>Susan Nero on The Crucibles of Leadership </p>
<p>The Alchemy of Leadership (2002)</p>
<p>Howard Gardner on The Alchemy of Leadership </p>
<p>Epilogue to the Twentieth–Anniversary Edition of On Becoming a Leader (2009)</p>
<p>David Gergen on Epilogue to the Twentieth–Anniversary Edition of On Becoming a Leader </p>
<p>Part 4: Leadership as Performance</p>
<p>The Seven Ages of the Leader (2004)</p>
<p>Sidney Harman on The Seven Ages of the Leader </p>
<p>The Leader as Storyteller (1996)</p>
<p>Peter Guber on The Leader as Storyteller </p>
<p>Leadership as a Performing Art (2002)</p>
<p>Glenn Close on Leadership as Performing Art </p>
<p>Part 5: Cultivating the Leader in Others</p>
<p>The Challenges of Leadership in the Modern World (2007)</p>
<p>Bill George on The Challenges of Leadership in the Modern World </p>
<p>How Business Schools Lost Their Way (2005)</p>
<p>Joel Podolny on How Business Schools Lost Their Way </p>
<p>The End of Leadership (1999)</p>
<p>Introduction to The Art of Followership (2008)</p>
<p>Followers Make Good Leaders Good (1989)</p>
<p>Jean Lipman–Blumen on Introduction to The Art of Followership and Followers Make Good Leaders Good </p>
<p>Part 6: Leadership and the Media</p>
<p>The Age of Unreality (1989)</p>
<p>News Analysis: It′s the Culture (2003)</p>
<p>Geneva Overholser on News Analysis: It s the Culture </p>
<p>The New Transparency (2008)</p>
<p>Geoff Cowan on The New Transparency </p>
<p>Notes</p>
<p>About the Authors</p>
<p>Index</p>
<p>Credits</p>
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