The essential Bennis

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Foreword (Charles Handy). (Warren Bennis). Part 1: My Life as a Invented Life: Shoe Polish, Milli Vanilli, and Sapiential Circles (1971, 1993). Martin Kaplan on An Invented Life. Berkeley of the and What Went Wrong (1973). Patricia Ward Biederman on Berkeley of the East and What Went Wrong. for the Perfect University President (1971). Steven B. Sample on Searching for the 'Perfect' University President. Foreword to The Age of Heretics (2008). Part 2: Organizations Create or Thwart Leaders. Is Inevitable (1964, 1990, 1998). Rosabeth Moss Kanter on Democracy Is Inevitable. The Coming Death of Bureaucracy (1966, 2000). Tom Peters on Coming Death of Bureaucracy. The End of the Great Man (1997). Scott Snook and Rakesh Khurana on End of the Great Man. The Pornography of Everyday Life (1976). Winning and Losing (1988). Lessons from Larry (2006). to (1972). Corporate Fear of Too Much Truth (2002). James O'Toole on When to Resign and A Corporate Fear of Too Much Truth. March of Folly Redux: Iraq (2003). Part 3: On Becoming a Learning Some Basic Truisms About (1989, 1996). the Basics (1989, 2003). Frances Hesselbein on Understanding the Basics. Deploying Yourself: Strike Hard, Try Everything (1989). Judgment Trumps Experience (2007). The Crucibles of (2004). Susan Nero on Crucibles of Leadership. The Alchemy of (2002). Howard Gardner on Alchemy of Leadership. to the Twentieth-Anniversary Edition of On Becoming a Leader (2009). David Gergen on Epilogue to the Twentieth-Anniversary Edition of On Becoming a Leader. Part 4: as Performance. The Seven Ages of the Leader (2004). Sidney Harman on Seven Ages of the Leader. The Leader as Storyteller (1996). Peter Guber on Leader as Storyteller. as a Performing Art (2002). Glenn Close on Leadership as Performing Art. Part 5: Cultivating the Leader in Others. The Challenges of in the Modern World (2007). Bill George on Challenges of in the Modern World. Business Schools Lost Their Way (2005). Joel Podolny on How Business Schools Lost Their Way. The End of (1999). to The Art of (2008). Make Good Leaders Good (1989). Jean Lipman-Blumen on Introduction to The Art of Followership and Followers Make Good Leaders Good. Part 6: and the Media. The Age of Unreality (1989). Analysis: It's the Culture (2003). Geneva Overholser on News Analysis: It's the Culture. The New Transparency (2008). Geoff Cowan on New Transparency. Notes. About the Authors. Index. Credits.