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In Reinventing Leadership, Bennis and Townsend discuss their concise leadership plan for the 21st century that reinvented leadership strategies and aims to empower both employees and organization. They focus on:

•moving away from conventional standards of business practice

•building trust

•finding a mentor to encourage reflective backtalk

•rewarding accomplishment

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1609145 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-13
• Released on: 2005-12-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .54" h x 6.94" w x 7.98" l, .36 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Are organizations better controlled, guided and directed by leadership or by management? The title of this book gives the authors' answer. The distinction between leadership and management is presented in platitudes, e.g., "The manager maintains: the leader develops." Bennis (Why Leaders Can't Lead) and Townsend (Up the Organization) further state that militaristic, command-and-control leadership has become anachronistic, and that the current downsized, flat-management era requires a new leadership style. To help readers develop the desirable new leadership traits, "dialogue starters" are suggested at the end of each chapter. The book concludes with a 21-day plan to help readers apply the pithy principles. Perhaps some might benefit from such a plan, but readers should be as skeptical of that laudable goal as they would be of a big weight loss in so short a time.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
The names on the cover virtually ensure this collection of conversations will appeal to the business crowd. Bennis, author of On Becoming a Leader, and Townsend, who wrote Up the Organization, chat about the qualities that should characterize today's corporate leaders. The conversations, albeit witty and wise, reveal little that previous writings and prior authors haven't already explored. The appendix, a 21-day plan for becoming a more effective leader, is definitely no substitute for years of experience and introspection. But there are important messages shared here: the next century's emphasis on intellectual capital, the principle of empowerment, and the transformation of COP (control, order, and predict) into ACE (acknowledge, create, and empower), among others. Barbara Jacobs

About the Author

Warren G. Bennis is university professor and founding chairman of the Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California. He is also chairman of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School and Distinguished Research Fellow at the Harvard Business School. He has written more than twenty-five books on leadership, change, and creative collaboration including Leaders, which was recently designated by the Financial Times as one of the top 50 business books of all time. His most recent book is Geeks & Geezers.