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In this illuminating study of corporate America's most critical issue -- leadership -- world-renowned leadership guru Warren Bennis and his co-author Burt Nanus reveal the four key principles every manager should know: Attention Through Vision, Meaning Through Communication, Trust Through Positioning, and The Deployment of Self.

In this age of "process", with downsizing and restructuring affecting many workplaces, companies have fallen trap to lack of communication and distrust, and vision and leadership are needed more than ever before. The wisdom and insight in Leaders addresses this need. It is an indispensable source of guidance all readers will appreciate, whether they're running a small department or in charge of an entire corporation.


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The authors included a number of observations that are thought-provoking for Christian readers. Here is a sample: . . . The higher the leadership post, 'the more interpersonal and human the undertaking.' The authors discovered that the top executives they interviewed spent roughly 90 percent of their time with people and virtually the same percentage of their time concerned with 'the messiness of people problems.' Leadership, that is, has to do with enabling others to fulfill their full humanness better.

—Christianity Today

"...has a great deal to say to any executive who, by being a 'manager,' has the responsibility to take on leadership as well."

—Peter Drucker

Warren Bennis is Distinguished Professor of Business Administration and Founding Chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California. Bennis has served on the faculties of MIT's Sloan School of Management, Harvard Business School, and Boston University. He served for seven years as president of the University of Cincinnati, where he coined the metaphor for the title of this book. He has been observing and writing about leadership for more than four decades and is the best-selling author of over 25 books, including Leaders, On Becoming a Leader, and An Invented Life, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

	Foreword to the Second Edition	ix
	Acknowledgments	xv
	MISTAKING CHARGE	1
	A New Theory of Leadership	3
	The Context of Leadership	6
	Paradigm Shifts	12
	LEADING OTHERS, MANAGING YOURSELF	18
	The Four Strategies	24
	Empowerment: The Dependent Variable	73
	Plan for Implementation	78
	STRATEGY I: ATTENTION THROUGH VISION	80
	Vision and Organizations	82
	Paying Attention: The Leader's Search for Vision	88
	Synthesizing Vision: The Leader's Choice for Direction	94
	Focusing Attention: The Leader's Search for Commitment	99
	STRATEGY II: MEANING THROUGH COMMUNICATION	102
	Three Styles of Social Architecture	110
	Tools of the Social Architect	129
	Changing the Social Architecture	136
	STRATEGY III: TRUST THROUGH POSITIONING	141
	Organizations and Their Environments	144
	QUEST for Position	155
	Lessons for Leadership	171
	STRATEGY W: THE DEPLOYMENT OF SELF	175
	The Learning Organization	178
	Innovative Learning	182
	Leading the Learning Organization	190
	Organizing for Innovative Learning	195
	TAKING CHARGE: LEADERSHIP AND EMPOWERMENT	200
	Management Education	204
	Dispelling Myths	206
	Toward the New Millennium	211
	A Final Note	218
	Notes	221
	Index	227

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