The Future of Leadership: Today's Top Leadership Thinkers Speak to Tomorrow's Leaders
Edited by Warren G. Bennis, Gretchen M. Spreitzer, and Thomas Cummings





Format: Hardcover, 352pp.
ISBN: 9780787955670
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date: May 2001

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Description and Reviews
From The Publisher:

Complete with contributions from the author himself, The Future of Leadership presents nineteen original chapters by a vanguard of celebrated business thinkers who are joined by some fast-emerging stars. This seminal work contains their collective wisdom and offers candid speculations on the future of leadership and the new economy. No other book on the topic offers the caliber of contributors and the range of thinking included here. Leadership gurus such as Charles Handy, Tom Peters, Edward Lawler, Jim Kouzes, and Barry Posner, along with some young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, present their valuable insights into the challenges leaders will face as the new millennium unfolds. They examine an array of timely questions about leadership such as: Why do we tolerate bad leaders? Why is leadership everyone's business? And how does the new economy influence leadership? It's a stimulating and provocative read that's bound to challenge and inform your own views about the nature and future of leadership.


About the Editors
Warren Bennis (Santa Monica, CA) is University Professor and Distinguished Professor of the Marshall School of Business. He is the author of nineteen books, including the bestselling Leaders (coauthored with Burt Nanus) and On Becoming a Leader. Gretchen M. Spreitzer (Pacific Palisades, CA) is Assistant Professor at USC Marshall School of Business and a faculty affiliate of both the Center for Effective Organizations and the Leadership Institute. Thomas Cummings (Palos Verdes Estates, CA) is Dean of USC's Marshall School of Business.


Table of Contents

	Preface	xi
Part 1	Setting the Stage for the Future
1	The Future Has No Shelf Life Warren Bennis	3
2	The Era of Human Capital Has Finally Arrived Edward Lawler III	14
Part 2	The Organization of the Future
3	A World of Fleas and Elephants Charles Handy	29
4	Knowledge Work and the Future of Management Thomas Davenport	41
5	Boundaryless Stephen Kerr	59
6	Trust Me On This: Organizational Support for Trust in a World Without Hierarchies Thomas Stewart	67
Part 3	The Leader of the Future
7	Bringing Leadership Lessons from the Past into the Future James Kouzes and Barry Posner	81
8	Leadership as the Legitimation of Doubt Karl Weick	91
9	Leading Yourself Philip Slater	103
10	The Context of Creativity Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi	116
11	Why Do We Tolerate Bad Leaders? Magnificent Uncertitude, Anxiety, and Meaning Jean Lipman-Blumen	125
12	The Evolving Role of Executive Leadership Cathy Greenberg-Walt and Alastair Robertson	139
13	When Leadership is an Organizational Trait James O'Toole	158
Part 4	How Leaders Stay on Top of Their Game
14	Just Say Yes! Tom Peters	177
15	Heroic Leadership's Greatest Battle: The Defeat of Disappointment Versus the Disappointment of Defeat Jeffrey Sonnenfield	189
Part 5	Insights from Young Leaders
16	Where the Leaders Are: The Promise of Youth Leadership Tara Church	211
17	Seeking A Newer World Edward Headington	226
Part 6	Some Closing Thoughts
18	The Leadership Challenges of the Next Generation Gretchen Spreitzer and Thomas Cummings	241
	Postlude: An Intellectual Memoir Warren Bennis	254
	Notes and References	281
	Index	293
	The Authors	305

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