The Practical Leader

MAY 16, 2011

I’ve long been a reader of Warren ’s books on leadership, change, and team/organization dynamics. I’ve often quoted his study findings and leadership wisdom in my books, blog, and presentations. Warren has a long and very distinguished career. Warren Bennis has been described as the father of leadership.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 6, 2013

The term was coined by James McGregor Burns, the Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian. In his book “ Leadership ” he talks about the transformational impact that occurs on performance and morale when a leader connects a follower’s sense of identity to the collective identity of the organization. You’re becoming a brown noser.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

In the last piece he wrote for HBR , a personal reflection, he even claimed that the keys to his successful career were “inglorious” ones: ambition, insecurity, labor, and luck. As the decades of his career passed, Warren continued to sail unafraid into topics that were hard to study but harder to ignore. Leadership'

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