Managing people is like herding cats / Warren Bennis on leadership.

Bennis, Warren G.

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Preface: Cats and Rats	7

Introduction: An Invented Life	9
Section One: The Leadership Crisis	17
	1. The Leadership Crisis	19
	2. Where Have ALL the Leaders Gone?	25
	3. Long Slide from True Leadership	31
	4. The Leader as Hero	37
	5. Untapped Human Capital	43
	6. Quitting on Principle	47
	7. Leadership Pornography and Optional Ethics	53
Section Two: What Makes a Leader?	63
	S. Mr. Wright Is Wrong	65
	9. Leadership for Tomorrow	71
	10. Developing Leaders	77
	1 1. Four Competencies of Great Leaders	81
	12. Ten Traits of Dynamic Leaders	89
	13. Creative Leadership	95
	14. Leaders Invent Themselves	103
	15. Leading Followers, Following Leaders	107
	16. Perils of Accord, Advantages of Access	117
	17. Leading for Results	127
	18. Learning to Lead	133
	19. How Leaders Learn	137
	20. Critical Thinking	145

Section Three: Leading Change	149
	2 1. Change: The New Metaphysics	151
	22. Introducing Change	159
	23. Change Agents	165
	24. Too Many Chiefs	171
	25. From CEO to CTO	177
	26. COPs and ACEs	185
	27. Shakes and Quakes	193
	28. Dealing with the Way Things Are	203
	29. Winning and Losing	211
	30. A New Wake-Up Call	215
Epilogue: Reflections on Retirement	223
Index	229