The Center For Leadership Studies
MAY 7, 2020
I don’t know whether he ever knew it or not, but Warren Bennis was the kind of author that elicited audible reactions from the people (like me) that read what he had to say about leadership. Case in point: Bennis was by no means the first scholar to draw a distinction between leadership and management.
The Practical Leader
MAY 16, 2011
Peter Drucker was often called the father of modern management thinking. Warren Bennis has been described as the father of leadership. I’ve long been a reader of Warren ’s books on leadership, change, and team/organization dynamics. On Becoming a Leader “is widely considered the top leadership book.&#
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 30, 2014
A wealthy industrialist, Joseph Wharton aspired to produce “pillars of the state” whose leadership would extend across business and public life. Peter Drucker, one of the first management specialists to achieve guru status, was representative of this era. This was the rise of what Drucker famously dubbed “knowledge work.”
First Friday Book Synopsis
JANUARY 5, 2012
The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business–Their Lives, Times, and Ideas Andrea Gabor Times Business (2000) A brilliant discussion of thirteen “geniuses of modern business” While preparing questions for another interview, I recently re-read this book (published in 2000) in which Andrea Gabor focuses on Frederick (..)
First Friday Book Synopsis
JANUARY 3, 2012
The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business–Their Lives, Times, and Ideas Andrea Gabor Times Business (2000) A brilliant discussion of thirteen “geniuses of modern business” While preparing questions for another interview, I recently re-read this book (published in 2000) in which Andrea Gabor focuses on Frederick (..)
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