Today’s organizations are evolving into federations, networks, clusters, cross-functional teams, and ad hoc task forces -- almost anything but top down pyramids. The paradigm of top-down leadership has become obsolete. Warren Bennis discusses how leadership must encompass inclusion and a new kind of alliance between the leaders and the led. You will learn the critical success factors to lead now and into the future while getting past the top-down model of leadership.
Participants in this program will learn how to:
- Identify four expectations employees (constituents) have of their organization’s leadership team and how leaders can best exceed those expectations
- Describe the importance of establishing trust in the workplace and specific actions that build trust
- Understand the critical success factors to lead now and into the future
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Warren Bennis is University Professor and founding chairman of The Leadership Institute, USC. 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 is a consultant for many Fortune 500 companies and has served on four U.S. Presidential commissions. He has written 27 books on leadership, change, and creative collaboration. “Leaders” was recently designated by the Financial Times as one of the top 50 business books of all times and An Invented Life was nominated for a Pulitzer. His latest book, Geeks & Geezers, compares leaders 70 years and older and 32 years and younger to identify “crucibles”—challenges—that helped forge them as leaders.
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