Audiobooks by Warren Bennis

Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

From Publishers Weekly University of Southern California business professor Bennis and Los Angeles Times reporter Biederman examine six "Great Groups" whose work affected and sometimes changed the modern world. They are the Disney organization and its animated films; the Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center, which designed the first user-friendly computer; the Clinton presidential campaign of 1992 for what the authors deem a remarkable victory; Lockheed's Skunk Works, where the U-2 spy plane and the Stealth bomber were developed; Black Mountain College in the foothills of North Carolina, which lasted only from 1933 to 1956 but attracted many major artists; and the Manhattan Project, whose scientists created the atomic bomb. All of these groups, the authors stress, consisted of enormously talented people with a sense of mission, who worked under a strong leader and were imbued with pragmatic optimism. Each segment is so well told that it has lessons for all.

Patricia Bierderman, Patricia Ward Biederman, Warren Bennis, Warren G. Bennis (Author), Walter Dixon (Narrator)

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On Becoming a Leader: The Leadership Classic Revised and Updated

For many years, Warren Bennis has persuasively argued that leaders are not born-they are made. And for countless readers, On Becoming a Leader has served as a beacon of insight, delving into the qualities that define leadership, the people who exemplify it, and the strategies that anyone can apply to achieve it. In a world increasingly defined by turbulence and uncertainty, the call to leadership is more urgent than ever. Featuring a provocative new epilogue on the challenges and opportunities facing leaders today, this new edition will inspire the next generation and guide us into the future.

Warren Bennis, Warren G. Bennis (Author), Walter Dixon (Narrator)

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On Becoming a Leader: The Leadership Classic Revised and Updated

Over his distinguished career Warren Bennis has shown that leaders are made, not born. In Learning to Lead, written in partnership with management development expert Joan Goldsmith, Bennis provides a program that will help managers transform themselves into leaders. Using wise insights from the world's best leaders, helpful self-assessments, and dozens of one-day skill-building exercises, Bennis and Goldsmith show in Learning to Lead how to see beyond leadership myths and communicate vision to others. With updates throughout, Learning to Lead is both a workbook and a deeply considered treatise on the nature of leadership by two of its finest and most experienced practitioners-and teachers.

Joan Goldsmith, Warren Bennis, Warren G. Bennis (Author), Walter Dixon (Narrator)

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Transparency: Creating a Culture of Candor

In this brief and timely audio book, the authors look at what conspires against "a culture of candor" in organizations for disastrous results and suggest ways that leaders can achieve healthy honesty and openness. In three separate essays the authors explore the lightening rod concept of "transparency" which has fast become the buzzword not only in business and corporate settings but in government and the social sector. The audio book starts with a preface by Warren Bennis, followed by three essays: -- The New Transparency -- Speaking Truth to Power -- Creating a Culture of Candor

Daniel Goleman, James O'Toole, James O'toole, Warren Bennis, Warren G. Bennis (Author), Erik Synnestvedt (Narrator)

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The Power of Truth: A Leading with Emotional Intelligence Conversation with Warren Bennis

Introducing an Important New Series of Original Audiobooks: The ideas expressed in Emotional Intelligence ten years ago have taken on a life of their own. They spurred a movement, with enthusiastic adherents in the business world, in medicine and healthcare, at home, in the field of education and the world at large. Several million people, including business managers, human resource departments, healthcare workers, teachers, parents and students, have applied the ideas and principles expressed in Emotional Intelligence to their fields with tangible and quantifiable results. Leading with Emotional Intelligence Conversations is an ongoing dialogue series that begins with luminaries in the field of business. In the world of business we have only scratched the surface of how principles of emotional intelligence can increase profitability and efficiency in the workplace. It's in the nature of an organization to want to spin information, but in reality, covering up painful truths can have negative consequences. For the best organizations, it is clear that the future is all about transparency. Businesses and organizations can only win by showing they have integrity. The good news, according to Bennis and Goleman, is that organizations can change, they can choose truth over spin-as long as their leaders have the emotional intelligence to create transparency as a core value and an ultimate goal. Every organization, from small business to large, private and public, can benefit from the lessons and ideas in The Power of Truth.

Daniel Goleman, Daniel Goleman, Ph.D, Prof. Daniel Goleman Ph.D., Prof. Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., Prof. Daniel Goleman, Phd, Warren Bennis, Warren G. Bennis (Author), Warren Bennis, Warren G. Bennis (Narrator)

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