Warren Bennis: Master of Transformative Leadership

Warren Bennis is not just an expert on leadership – which he undoubtedly is. He created the modern interest in the subject, with the book he co-wrote with Burt Nanus: ‘Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge’.
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This video is part of course module number 3.11.5
Program 3: Managing and Leading Individuals
Course 11: Leadership
Section 5: Masters of Leadership
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LESSON NOTES
Some of Bennis’s Leadership Ideas.
Leaders:
- learn from failure.
- create empathy
- create great groups
The Differences between Managers and Leaders
In response to a Harvard Business Review article by Abraham Zaleznik in 1977, Bennis articulated his famous set of comparisons between a manager and a leader, in the book ‘On Becoming a Leader’ - https://geni.us/0kBWVb
• The manager administers; the leader innovates.
• The manager is a copy; the leader is an original.
• The manager maintains; the leader develops.
• The manager focuses on systems and structure; the leader focuses on people.
• The manager relies on control; the leader inspires trust.
• The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
• The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
• Managers have their eyes on the bottom line; leaders have their eyes on the horizon.
• The manager imitates; the leader originates.
• The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
• The manager is the classic good soldier; the leader is his own person.
• The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
Four leadership strategies
1: Attention through Vision
2: Meaning through Communication
3: Trust through Positioning
4: The Deployment of Self
Six leadership myths
1: Leadership is a rare skill
2: Leaders are born, not made
3: Leaders are charismatic
4: Leadership only exists at the top of an organization
5: The leader controls, directs, prods, manipulates
6: The leader’s sole job is to increase shareholder value
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RECOMMENDED READING
There are a vast number of Leadership books - perhaps more than on any other management-related topic. And there is also a huge range represented in different lists of the best. This no-doubt reflects the different contexts for leadership.
So, any recommended reading list of leadership books must be particularly subjective. I have chosen those that made me think, and which are of particular value to managerial leaders: not sportspeople, military leaders, or CEOs. In no particular order:
Leaders Eat Last
https://geni.us/ZIawP8Y
Start with Why
https://geni.us/D8ZSs
Humble Leadership
https://geni.us/KMuCl
The Leadership Challenge
https://geni.us/nyQ3
The New Leaders
https://geni.us/5ziIw
Shackleton's Way
https://geni.us/Oicsj
Why should Anyone be Led by You
https://geni.us/xugbBk1
The Habit of Excellence
https://geni.us/VIz8Z
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CHAPTER MARKERS
00:00 - Warren Bennis
00:27 - Warren Bennis and Douglas McGregor - and Theory X & Theory Y
01:42 - Bennis’s principal contribution
02:06 - The Science of Leadership
02:37 - Bennis’s big leadership ideas
03:44 - The differences between managers and leaders
04:46 - Four leadership strategies
05:22 - Strategy 1: Attention through vision
05:48 - Strategy 2: Meaning through communication
06:15 - Strategy 3: Trust through positioning
07:04 - Strategy 4: The Deployment of Self
07:43 - Busting leadership myths
09:26 - Summing-up Warren Bennis
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