Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership (Audiobook) (repost)
Warren Bennis, "Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership" [Audiobook, Unabridged]
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1596594519 | MP3@96 kbps | 8 hrs 05 mins | 340 Mb
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1596594519 | MP3@96 kbps | 8 hrs 05 mins | 340 Mb
A pioneer in studying leadership and group dynamics, Bennis, at age 85, looks back on a life and career focused on realization of individual and group potential. As a 19-year-old platoon member in WWII, Bennis began a lifetime of observing the kinds of pressures that create leaders. At Antioch College, Bennis met and became the protégé of Doug McGregor, who helped get him into MIT and introduced him to group dynamics. Bennis found Antioch and MIT fertile ground for ideas and the urgency to understand collective behavior, particularly after the Holocaust and the war. He recalls a golden age of social science, meeting and working with Abraham Maslow, Erik Erikson, Robert Merton, and other pioneers in the nascent fields of psychoanalysis and group therapy.
Bennis, author of the best-selling On Becoming a Leader (1989) and 29 other books on organizational dynamics and leadership, also recalls career and marital ups and downs and offers lessons and a critical self-analysis. A fascinating look at the life of a pioneering researcher and business consultant and the ties between social science and business management.