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The
Future of Leadership
Today's Top Leadership Thinkers Speak to
Tomorrow's Leaders
Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco,
2001, (316 pages in hardback)
Edited by Warren Bennis, Thomas
Cummings, and Gretchen Spreitzer
ISBN
0787955671
This interesting work is a
collection of essays by some of the world’s most respected leadership thinkers.
Contributors include Charles Handy, James O’Toole, Thomas Stewart, Tom Peters,
Barry Posner and James Kouzes. These essays were
first presented at a special conference held to honor Warren Bennis. Organizers labeled the conference a festschrift, a
German word for a volume of essays assembled by colleagues to be a tribute to a
renowned scholar. The essays were edited and divided into five parts:
1.
Setting the Stage for the Future.
2.
The Organization of the Future
3.
The Leader of the Future.
4.
How Leaders Stay on Top of Their Game.
5.
Insights from Young Leaders.
The result is an insightful
examination on the state of leadership today and the challenges it can expect
to experience in the future. For example, Bennis
writes the first essay and presents a number of challenging issues, including
the widening disparity of talent among income levels, growing demographic
changes between young and old and balancing the demands of work and home. James
O’Toole looks at the organization of the future and remarks that leaders should
view their tasks “as creating the systems under which others would be
encouraged to do all the things that typically end up on the desk of the
do-it-all leader.”
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