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On becoming a leader / Warren Bennis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bennis, Warren G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leadership.
- Leadership--Case studies.
- Administrative Personnel.
- Organization and Administration.
- Goals.
- Organizational Objectives.
- Medical Subjects:
- Leadership.
- Administrative Personnel.
- Organization and Administration.
- Goals.
- Organizational Objectives.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xxxix, 254 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Twentieth anniversary edition, revised and updated.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, [2009]
- Summary:
- Management expert Bennis shows how individuals develop leadership traits and how organizations encourage or stifle potential leaders. The author profiles dynamic figures from diverse business arenas to demonstrate how all leaders share distinctive characteristics.
- Management expert Bennis shows how individuals develop leadership traits and how organizations encourage or stifle potential leaders.
- Contents:
- Mastering the context
- Understanding the basics
- Knowing yourself
- Knowing the world
- Operating on instinct
- Deploying yourself: strike hard, try everything
- Moving through chaos
- Getting people on your side
- Organizations can help
- or hinder
- Forging the future
- Epilogue to the twentieth-anniversary edition.
- Notes:
- "The leadership classic"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-244) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780465014088
- 0465014089
- OCLC:
- 246894143
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