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Informationen zum Autor WARREN G. BENNIS is Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California. He is coauthor of the best-selling book Leaders (over 200,000 copies sold) and other seminal works. Bennis has been a university president and adviser to four U.S. presidents. He is now a leading corporate consultant. Klappentext This book - alive with warmth and wisdom - is essential reading both for leaders and for the human resource professionals who teach them. Zusammenfassung A Selection of the Executive Program and Fortune Book Clubs Leaders beware. There's an unconscious conspiracy afoot! aiming to sabotage your plans and undermine your vision. Entrenched bureaucracy! ominous social trends! and mind--numbing routine are among its members?and their proliferation is an unfortunate sign of our times. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xi The Author xvii Part One: The Unconscious Conspiracy and How to Confound It 1 1 One Job, One Year, One Life 3 2 Learning Some Basic Truisms About Leadership 14 3 The New Metaphysics of Our Age 25 Part Two: A Society Without Dreams 31 4 The Long Slide from True Leadership 33 5 Back to the Future 42 6 The age of Unreality 50 7 Where Have All the Leaders Gone? 59 Part Three: Parts of the Problem 67 8 Bosses as Heroes and Celebrities 69 9 When There Are Too Many Chiefs 76 10 Bottom-Line Obsessions 81 11 Untapped Human Capital 86 12 The Perils of Accord 90 13 The Pornography of Leadership 94 14 When Winning Is Losing 98 15 The Name of the Game is Greed 102 Part Four: Parts of the Solution 105 16 Leading to Make a Difference 107 17 A Bright Future for Complexity 112 18 Letting Virtues Shine Through 116 19 Quitting on Principle 121 20 Canceling the Doppelganger Effect 137 21 Leader Power That No One Has 142 22 Avoiding Disaster During Periods of Change 147 23 Dealing with the Way Things Are 152 Postscript 160 Index 161 ...
