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1 online resource |
| Summary |
"In recent years many management gurus have been speaking glibly of the virtues of failure. Silicon Valley has adopted mantras such as Fail better," "fail fast" and other variations. This book suggests that good leaders must go deeper. The path to success represents a conundrum: Ultimate success often requires failures along the way, and fear of failure often blocks ultimate success. But the wise leader needs to know when he or she cannot afford to fail. It examines why some great leaders were able to recover from spectacular failure--mainly George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill and Harry Truman, as well as some more contemporary figures. And it explores and assesses which leadership skills are nonnegotiable for any leader who seeks to avoid lasting failure and to attain ultimate success. This manuscript was a collaboration by the late Dr. Warren G. Bennis and his longtime colleague, former USC President Steven B. Sample. It is a fully developed manuscript of about 29,000 words. It was begun in February 2014 and was polished to its current state in the weeks following Dr. Bennis' passing"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Praise for The Art and Adventure of Leadership; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Redefining Success and Failure; Leadership as Playing with Fire-The Very Fire of the Gods; It Depends: The Contingency Principle in Action; Why we Must View Leadership Through the Lens of Complexity; Chapter 2: Why Success Requires the Right Kind of Appetite for the Fight; If You Do Want to Do Leadership ... ; Reality Check: Leadership as 70 Percent Trivia; Staying Out of Prison, and Other Benefits of a Healthy Expression of Leadership Skill. |
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Management Versus LeadershipChapter 3: Accepting and Exercising Moral Responsibility: The Ability to Accept-and Manage-Responsibility for Difficult Ethical Choices; When There is No Win-Win Scenario: The Painful Moral Calculus of Failure; The Ability to Compromise-And to be Compromised; A Compromised Saint: The Dilemma of Thomas More; Chapter 4: Avoiding Groupthink, Mass Media, and the Failures of the Herd; Failures Caused by Groupthink; Why Leaders Don't Follow the News: Ignoring Today's Trivia in Search of Timeless Truths; Information Versus Gossip; Media Myopia is Most Visible in Hindsight. |
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Chapter 5: A Timeless Reading List That Leads to Timely SuccessBeware the Trade Press; A Daily Dose of Discipline; Chapter 6: When Failure is Baked Into the System; How Democratic Governance Avoids and Prevents Failure; Failure and Disillusionment; Defending Democracy; Where Good Decisions are Born; Democracy Works as Science Works; A Brazen Prediction About Democracy's Success; Chapter 7: Bankruptcy and Failure as the Great American Pastime: A Land of Second Chances; The Human Consequences of Fear of Failure; Conclusion: Redeeming Failure; Note From the Writer; About the Authors. |
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Leadership.
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Success in business.
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Success.
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Leadership. |
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Succès dans les affaires. |
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Succès. |
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Leadership |
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Success |
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Success in business |
| Added Author |
Sample, Steven B., 1940-2016.
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Asghar, Rob.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bennis, Warren G. Art and adventure of leadership. Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2015 9781119090311 (DLC) 2015001932 |
| ISBN |
9781119090328 (epub) |
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1119090326 (epub) |
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9781119090380 (pdf) |
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1119090385 (pdf) |
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1119090318 |
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9781119090311 |
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(hardback) |
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