The Future of Leadership: Today’s Top Leadership Thinkers Speak to Tomorrow’s Leaders
The Future of Leadership is a book that is inspiring, wise, and a joy to read. It honors the spirit and force of one of the world’s greatest thinkers on leadership, Warren Bennis. A must-read for students of the new, new economy-the hybrid that bridges the professionalism of the old with the agility of the new.
– John Seely Brown, former director of Xerox PARC and coauthor, The Social Life of Information
- Warren Bennis examines the issues that will challenge tomorrow’s leaders
- Edward E. Lawler III considers the arrival of the era of human capital
- Charles Handy discusses tomorrow’s organizational landscape
- Thomas H. Davenport analyzes knowledge work and the future of management
- Steven Kerr reflects on the boundaryless organizations
- Thomas A. Stewart explores the network organizations
- James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner reveal the enduring leadership lessons of the past
- Karl E. Weick talks about making sense of the unpredictable future for organizations
- Philip Slater looks at leading oneself
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi explores creating a context for creativity
- Jean Lipman-Blumen why we tolerate bad leaders
- Cathy L. Greenberg-Walt and Alastair G. Robertson reveal the evolving role of executive leadership
- James O’Toole examines leadership as an organizational trait
- Tom Peters discusses staying a fresh, motivated, and curious leader
- Jeffrey Sonnenfeld brings to light how leaders respond to adversity
- Tara Church reports on engaging youth in the practice of leadership
- Edward W. Headington puts Generation X leadership under the microscope
- Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Thomas G. Cummings consider the overall future of leadership
