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Article: LEADERSHIP Warren Bennis - On "geeks and geezers" and real experiences
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- New Zealand Management
- Article date:
- June 4, 2003
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Warren Bennis has done more to debunk the heroic leadership myth
than just about any other business thinker. Leaders, he argues, are
made not born. Bennis has produced a steady stream of books and his
recently published Geeks and Geezers compares leaders under-35
("geeks") with those over 70 ("geezers"). Now in his late 70s,
Bennis' intellectual energy and output remains formidable. Bennis
talked to Management's contributing writer, Stuart Crainer, who
visited him at his new office at Harvard Business School where he is
spending time as an adviser on leadership.
What motivated you to compare young and old leaders?
I want to understand human development. I think that's the new
challenge. In ...