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The future of leadership : today's top leadership thinkers speak to tomorrow's leaders / Warren Bennis, Gretchen M. Spreitzer, Thomas G. Cummings, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cummings, Thomas G., author.
- Series:
- Jossey-Bass business & management series.
- The Jossey-Bass business & management series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bennis, Warren G.
- Leadership.
- Organizational effectiveness.
- Organizational change.
- Management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 316 p. )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A collection of wisdom and inspirational offerings, from todays business leaders to those who would be leaders tomorrow. Topics range from the arrival of the era of human capital to creating a context for creativity in the workplace. Examines challenging issues tomorrow's leaders may face.
- Contents:
- Preface / Thomas G. Cummings, Gretchen M. Spreitzer
- Part 1. Setting the stage for the future
- The future has no shelf life / Warren Bennis
- The era of human capital has finally arrived / Edward E. Lawler III
- Part 2. The organization of the future
- A world of fleas and elephants / Charles Handy
- Knowledge work and the future of management / Thomas H. Davenport
- Boundaryless / Steven Kerr
- Trust me on this : organizational support for trust in a world without hierarchies / Thomas A. Stewart
- Part 3. The leader of the future
- Bringing leadership lessons from the past into the future / James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
- Leadership as the legitimation of doubt / Karl E. Weick
- Leading yourself / Philip Slater
- The context of creativity / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Why do we tolerate bad leaders? : magnificent uncertitude, anxiety, and meaning / Jean Lipman-Blumen
- The evolving role of executive leadership / Cathy L. Greenberg-Walt, Alastair G. Robertson
- When leadership is an organizational trait / James O'Toole
- Part 4. How leaders stay on top of their game
- Just say yes! / Tom Peters
- Heroic leadership's greatest battle : the defeat of disappointment versus the disappointment of defeat / Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
- Part 5. Insights from young leaders
- Where the leaders are : the promise of youth leadership / Tara Church
- Seeking a newer world / Edward W. Headington
- Part 6. Some closing thoughts
- The leadership challenges of the next generation / Gretchen M. Spreitzer, Thomas G. Cummings
- Postlude : an intellectual memoir / Warren Bennis.
- Notes:
- Book from the May 2000 festschrift, in honor of Warren Bennis, held by the Department of Management and Organization at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-292) and index.
- OCLC:
- 851200347
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