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  11. Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives (Warren Bennis Signature Series)
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  13. Nobody in Charge : Essays on the Future of Leadership (02 Edition)
  14. The Art of Waking People Up: Cultivating Awareness and Authenticity at Work (Warren Bennis Signature Series)
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The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership (Warren Bennis Signature Series)

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Publisher Comments:

In this offbeat approach to leadership, college president Steven B. Sample-the man who turned the University of Southern California into one of the most respected and highly rated universities in the country-challenges many conventional teachings on the subject. Here, Sample outlines an iconoclastic style of leadership that flies in the face of current leadership thought, but a style that unquestionably works, nevertheless. Sample urges leaders and aspiring leaders to focus on some key counterintuitive truths. He offers his own down-to-earth, homespun, and often provocative advice on some complex and thoughtful issues. And he provides many practical, if controversial, tactics for successful leadership, suggesting, among other things, that leaders should sometimes compromise their principles, not read everything that comes across their desks, and always put off decisions.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780787955878
Foreword:
Bennis, Warren G.
Author:
Bennis, Warren G.
Publisher:
Jossey-Bass Pfeiffer ;
Location:
San Francisco, Calif.
Subject:
Leadership
Subject:
Entrepreneurship
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references.
Series:
Warren Bennis Signature Series
Series Volume:
121
Publication Date:
October 2001
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
9.34x6.35x.92 in. 1.10 lbs.

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