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An intimate look at the founding father of the modern leadership movement
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. Bennis' life and career have traversed
eight decades of first-hand experience with tumultuous episodes of recent history-from
Jewish child in a gentile town in the 30's, a young army recruit in the Battle of the
Bulge to a college student in the one of the first progressive precursors to the civil
rights movement to a patient undergoing daily psychoanalysis for five years, and later a
university provost during the Vietnam protests.
- Reveals the triumphs and struggles of the man who is considered the pioneer in
the contemporary field of leadership studies
- Bennis is the author of 27 books including the bestseller On Becoming a Leader
This is first book to examine the extraordinary life of Warren Bennis by the
man himself.
Table of Contents
Prelude.
1 The Crucible of War.
2 Launch.
3 Rites of Passage.
4 Great Groups.
5 Fighting the Bull.
6 Going State.
7 A Year at Sea.
8 Coming Home.
9 The Crucible of Age.
Acknowledgments.
About the Author.
Index.
272 pages, Hardcover