TY - BOOK AU - Bennis,Warren G. AU - Biederman,Patricia Ward ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Still surprised: a memoir of a life in leadership AV - HC102.5.B46 A3 2010eb U1 - 658.0092B 22 PY - 2010/// CY - San Francisco PB - Jossey-Bass KW - Bennis, Warren G. KW - Executives KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Leadership KW - Management KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes index; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries N2 - "An intimate look at the founding father of the modern leadership movement Warren Bennis is an acclaimed American scholar, successful organizational consultant and author, and an expert in the field of leadership. His much awaited memoir is filled with insights about the successes and failures from his long and storied life and career. Bennis' life and career have traversed eight decades of first-hand experience with tumultuous episodes of recent history-from Jewish child in a gentile town in the 30's, a young army recruit in the Battle of the Bulge to a college student in the one of the first progressive precursors to the civil rights movement to a patient undergoing daily psychoanalysis for five years, and later a university provost during the Vietnam protests. Reveals the triumphs and struggles of the man who is considered the pioneer in the contemporary field of leadership studies Bennis is the author of 27 books including the bestseller On Becoming a Leader. This is first book to examine the extraordinary life of Warren Bennis by the man himself."-- UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10469685 ER -