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Review of “Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership” by Warren Bennis

The Practical Leader

Peter Drucker was often called the father of modern management thinking. I’ve long been a reader of Warren ’s books on leadership, change, and team/organization dynamics. This began a close mentoring relationship until McGregor’s early and sudden death in 1964. in economics and social sciences.

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. It isn’t the only deeply-held and rarely examined notion that affects how organizations are run. Along with the new means of production, organizations gained scale. Townes, and Henry L.