Managing the Dream
Subtitle: Reflections on Leadership and Change
By: Warren Bennis ; foreword by Tom Peters
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Perseus Publishing; Perseus Pub.
Published: June 15, 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780738203324
Copyright date: 2000
Subjects: Leadership In Business; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Organizational change; Entrepreneurship; Bennis, Warren G; Leadership
First sentence: Pick up any business magazine or newspaper and you'll find the same story: pessimism about America's capacity to compete successfully in the new, spirited global economy.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Tom Peters; title: Introduction : The dreams and nightmares of leaders; title: Part one : Negotiating the dream : lessons in the art of leading.; title: Managing the dream; title: The four competencies of leadership; title: On the leading edge of change; title: Change : the new metaphysics; title: Information overload anxiety (and how to overcome it); title: Cope with speed and complexity (raplexity); title: The leadership advantage; title: Part two : Organizing the dream : social architecture for the new global village.; title: Is democracy inevitable?; title: The coming death of bureaucracy; title: Corporate boards; title: Our federalist future; title: The secrets of great groups; title: The end of leadership; title: Paradigm shifts; title: The case for co-leaders; title: Part three : Embodying the dream : lessons in character.; title: An invented life; title: The years of scholarship : an intellectual memoir; title: The Wallenda factor; title: When to resign; title: Followership; title: The leader as storyteller; title: Operating on instinct; title: Postscript : The future has no shelf life