Publication Date:Mar 02, 2009
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This is a Perseus book chapter.
Warren Bennis's classic book On Becoming a Leader examines the differences between leaders and followers and explains how leaders emerge and sustain themselves. The 2009 edition, published by Basic Books (a member of the Perseus Books group), is substantially updated from the original. In this chapter, Bennis explores the importance of learning to leaders, and distinguishes among three types of learning: shock, maintenance, and innovative. He goes on to demonstrate the value of (1) looking back at your childhood and adolescence and using your experiences to make things happen in the present; (2) consciously seeking the kinds of experiences that will improve and enlarge you; (3) taking risks as a matter of course, with the knowledge that failure is as vital as it is inevitable; (4) seeing the future as an opportunity to do things that need to be done, rather than as a trial or a test.
Career planning; Leadership