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Article: The leader (within): leadership icon Warren Bennis knows that to lead well you must define your unique difference.(Interview)
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- Association Management
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- August 1, 2004
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NEOTENY, YEP, WARREN BENNIS DEFINITELY HAS HIS FAIR SHARE of it: that youthful curiosity and zest for knowledge that surprises us when we see it in older people. It's a term that he uses often in Geeks and Geezers: How Era, Values, and Defining Moments Shape Leaders (2002, Harvard Business School Press), a book he co-wrote with Robert J. Thomas, associate partner and senior fellow at the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It's a vitality fueled by passion, toned by resilience, and, yes, probably nourished a bit by the gene pool as well.
Bennis, who thinks that neoteny--youthful zest, passion, call it what you will--is inherent in ...