Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership Hardcover - 2010
by Bennis, Warren
- Used
Warren Bennis is an acclaimed American scholar, successful organizational consultant and author, and an expert in the field of leadership. His much-awaited memoir is filled with insights about the successes and failures from his long and storied life and career.
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- Title Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership
- Author Bennis, Warren
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition International Ed
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Jossey-Bass, San Francisco:
- Date 2010-08-16
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # X14A-02556
- ISBN 9780470432389 / 0470432381
- Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 9.16 x 6.34 x 0.97 in (23.27 x 16.10 x 2.46 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Management, Leadership
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the jacket flap
Still Surprised illuminates how the world-changing ideasof Bennis and his colleagues resulted from the searing crucible oftheir own encounters, events, and experiences-- not within asterile laboratory of ideas. It demonstrates how students ofleadership are formed by what they discover about themselves onroads that are opened to them by circumstances--and by theroles they choose to carve out for themselves as a result.
The memoir begins, appropriately, with the surprise of anawkward and confused teenage Warren Bennis being prodded into hisfirst leadership position, in vicious combat during the latterstages of World War II. This child of the depression is thensurprised by the opportunity to attend college, thanks to the GIBill, at the raucous and revolutionary Antioch College. Next come anumber of breathtaking roles: working alongside some of the world'smost intriguing and celebrated figures, from Cambridge to Calcutta, to reshape organizational life; successfully putting his owntheories into practice as a university provost and president; andcoaching not only U.S. presidents and top corporate CEOs butsuccessive waves of ambitious young women and men.
This is also a memoir of our times, seen through the prism ofBennis's own development during crucial inflection points of recentdecades. His own medley of insecurity, hard work, determination toinvent a new life, and growing capacity to engage others all cameinto play amidst transformations within our society.
The art of leading well is not based on quick formulas formoving people, Bennis has noted; it flows from becoming anintegrated person, one who is able to discover and define--andredefine--oneself in the face of surprises and challenges. Theannals of modern leadership would be incomplete if our foremostauthority on leadership had not detailed his own journey ofself-discovery, as he finally does here--to the delight ofdevotees and admirers around the globe.
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Citations
- Booklist, 07/01/2010, Page 23
