Up the Organization, Warren Bennis
Up the Organization, Warren Bennis
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Up the Organization
How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits

Author: Warren Bennis, Robert C. Townsend

Narrator: Robert Blumenfeld

Unabridged: 5 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 07/20/2020

Synopsis

This commemorative edition remains true to the 1970 original text with alphabetical entries defining Townsend's unique, often hilarious and always provacative take on business. Now with a new chapter on leadership, a Warren Bennis foreword, and essays from many of Townsend's influential friends, including Bob Davids, former CEO of Radica Games, former New Yorker editor Robert Gottlieb, and USC professor Jim O'Toole. Includes an afterword by Townsend's son.

About Warren Bennis

Warren Bennis is known around the world as the preeminent expert on the subject of leadership. He is University Professor of Business Administration and Founding Chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California and serves as the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University’s Kennedy School. His bestselling books Leaders and On Becoming a Leader have been translated into 21 languages. The Financial Times named Leaders one of the top 50 business books of all time. He has served on four Presidential Advisory Boards and has consulted for many Fortune 500 companies, including GE, Ford, and Starbucks.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael

The only book about business that you'll ever need to read. Over 40 years old now, but it still cuts though all the BS of the modern corporate world.......more

Goodreads review by Omar

As the cover jacket best summarizes it: "No pomposities. In short takes and plain words here is a way to humanize business, to have fun while making it all work better than it ever worked before - and better than it ever worked before - and better than anyone else is making it work...The result is t......more

Goodreads review by David

First came across this paperback shortly after it was published in 1970, so my edition is not the same as the one shown here. What's interesting is how much of Townsend's advice still resonates after 40+ years. You'd think that a section like COMPUTERS AND THEIR PRIESTS would be out of the ark by now......more

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