Reinventing Leadership: Strategies to Empower the Organization (Collins Business Essentials) - Softcover

Leadership for the 21st Century The demands of today's workplace call for stronger and more inspiring leadership in order to motivate employees and to achieve the quality results for which successful organizations constantly strive. In Reinventing Leadership, Warren G. Bennis and Robert Townsend show leaders how to empower their organizations and bring the best out of each employee. Inside you will find useful leadership strategies that include: * Moving away from conventional standards of business practice * Building trust * How to find a mentor * Rewarding accomplishment These strategies will help transform leadership visions into reality and lead organizations into a future that includes increased employee satisfaction and continued economic growth.

Warren G. Bennis is university professor and founding chairman of the Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California. He is also chairman of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School and Distinguished Research Fellow at the Harvard Business School. He has written more than twenty-five books on leadership, change, and creative collaboration including Leaders, which was recently designated by the Financial Times as one of the top 50 business books of all time. His most recent book is Geeks & Geezers. Robert Townsend was a former director of American Express, and was the author of the New York Times best seller Up the Organization.