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Managing the Dream: Reflections on Leadership and Change Warren G. Bennis Format: Paperback, 256pp. ISBN: 9780738203324 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: July 2000 Average Customer Review: For Bulk Orders Call: 626-441-2024 Description and Reviews From The Publisher: A surprising, thought-provoking, powerful collection, the best essays from Warren Bennis, the world's preeminent writer on leadership Warren Bennis has become synonymous with leadership, exploring all its dimensions as both practitioner and scholar for over four decades. Managing the Dream is an intimate portrait of leadership, comprising over a dozen essays that represent the author's most incisive and creative thinking. It features many of Bennis' most recent works, including "The End of Leadership," and a new preface reflecting on the challenge of leadership in the new millennium. Reviews "Few observers of American business have led as interesting a life as Warren Bennis...this guru has lived through every twist of modern management ....Reading [this book] is like spending several hours in the company of a smart, fascinating man." —Business Week "Bennis's lifelong quest to hold things together in the face of uncertainty is consolidated in these essays. Their vividness and humanity compel readers to keep that quest alive." —Karl E. Weick,, University of Michigan "Warren Bennis has truly achieved wisdom in the field of leadership so it is wonderful to see a collection of his works that enables us all to share his marvelous insights. This will be a very important book." —Edgar H. Schein, MIT Sloan School of Management "Managing the Dream is the ultimate distillation of Bennis's incredible oeuvre on leadership. Brilliance and wisdom sparkle on every page. In these wonderfully written essays, Bennis probes relentlessly to uncover the complexities, the dangers, the anguish, and the exhilaration of leadership. No one does it better!" —Jean Lipman-Blumen, Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University
About the Author Warren Bennis is Distinguished Professor of Business Administration and Founding Chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California. Bennis has served on the faculties of MIT's Sloan School of Management, Harvard Business School, and Boston University. He served for seven years as president of the University of Cincinnati, where he coined the metaphor for the title of this book. He has been observing and writing about leadership for more than four decades and is the best-selling author of over 25 books, including Leaders, On Becoming a Leader, and An Invented Life, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Table of Contents
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