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Book Review: On Becoming a Leader

Warren Bennis believes that leadership is not something taught through training and development courses or, ironically, by buying books on leadership. Instead, Bennis argues that the majority of leaders have been made by accident, through circumstance and sheer grit. While Bennis acknowledges leadership courses teach skills, leaders are left on their own to develop character [...]

Did Bennis Miss the Mark?

A common trend by popular authors is to describe leadership by defining the difference between managers and leaders. In the most famous example, Bennis and Goldsmith (1997) assert that managers do things right, while leaders do the right things. This is a short description, but not all that descriptive. Buckingham (2005) claims that great managers [...]