Still surprised: a memoir of a life in leadership

This book is Warren Bennis true memoir, direct from the source, before other biographies start to come out. Bennis long and storied life and career are filled with insights about many of the people who helped (and hindered) him alongthe way. Characters include influential management theorists Douglas MacGregor, and Abraham Maslow, controversial EST founder and now fugitive Werner Erhard, ‘Dear Abby’ Ann Landers, management giant Peter Drucker, 1960s counterculture icon Timothy Leary, bestselling author Tom Peters and many more. In addition, Bennis life and career has traversed eight decades, and the events of thesedecades are brought home through his many stories. As a Jewish child in a gentile town in the 1930s, a young army recruit in the Battle of the Bulge, a college student in the one of the first progressive precursors to the civil rights movement, a patient undergoing daily psychoanalysis for five years, and later a university provost during the Vietnam protests, Bennis has had a first-hand seat to many of the tumultuous episodes of recent history. They shaped him and his thinking and actions; he was and is both an amazing observer and a player in this history. This book promises to be honest, warts and all, and at times revelatory. Bennis is an eloquent writer one of the best in business and hewill be worked closely with Patricia Ward Bierdeman, his longtime writer/collaborator and personal friend, to shape a unique and lasting book. Includes a photo insert with previously unpublished photos.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-43238-9
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 264
• Fecha Publicación: 27/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés