Why Leaders Can't Lead: The Unconscious Conspiracy Continues (Jossey-Bass Management)

Why Leaders Can't Lead: The Unconscious Conspiracy Continues (Jossey-Bass Management)

by WarrenBennis (Author)

Synopsis

A Selection of the Executive Program and Fortune Book Clubs

Leaders beware. There's an unconscious conspiracy afoot, aiming to sabotage your plans and undermine your vision. Entrenched bureaucracy, ominous social trends, and mind-numbing routine are among its members?and their proliferation is an unfortunate sign of our times. But take heart. In this highly acclaimed work, legendary management consultant Warren Bennis unmasks the culprits, analyzes their tactics, and offers new insights for change agents struggling to take charge in an era that conspires against effective leadership.

The best book on how leaders can lead.
--Peter Drucker

Bennis teaches leaders to maximize their virtues, correct their faults, face change successfully, and love their work. Leaders will win, but so will their organizations: Bennis advocates a collaborative leadership that empowers employees and enhances organizational effectiveness.

A priceless gift to those seeking to be accountable leaders.
--Max De Pree, author of Leading Without Power

So learn why leaders can't lead. Then learn how they can lead. This book--alive with warmth and wisdom--is essential reading both for leaders and for the human resource professionals who teach them.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: 1
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 21 Jul 1997

ISBN 10: 0787909432
ISBN 13: 9780787909437

Media Reviews
Warren Bennis is one of the most perceptive and experiencedwriters on leadership and management....The book is full of livelyinsights expressed in vivid terms. --John W. Gardner, formerSecretary of Health, Education and Welfare

Only Warren Bennis has the unique combination of thirty years'study of leaders and leadership and twenty years' practicalexperience as COO and CEO of large and difficult organizations thatmakes Why Leaders Can't Lead the best book on how leaders canlead. --Peter Drucker

Warren Bennis is one of the most perceptive and experiencedwriters on leadership and management. . . . He knows a lot aboutwhy our common efforts don't work and how they might be made towork. The book is full of lively insights expressed in vividterms. --John W. Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Educationand Welfare, and founding chairman of Common Cause

This is vintage Bennis! Bennis at his best! --Robert TownsAnd, author of Up the Organization and Further Up the Organization
Author Bio
WARREN G. BENNIS is Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California. He is coauthor of the best-selling book Leaders (over 200,000 copies sold) and other seminal works. Bennis has been a university president and adviser to four U.S. presidents. He is now a leading corporate consultant.