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Best Business Books 2006: Leadership
Jonathan Alter,
The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
(Simon & Schuster, 2006)
Lucy Hughes-Hallett,
Heroes: Saviors, Traitors, and Supermen. A History of Hero Worship
(Knopf, 2005)
Nikos Mourkogiannis,
Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
Sharon Daloz Parks,
Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World
(Harvard Business School Press, 2005)
Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones,
Why Should Anyone Be Led by YOU? What It Takes to Be an Authentic Leader
(Harvard Business School Press, 2006)
Mark Gerzon,
Leading through Conflict: How Successful Leaders Transform Differences into Opportunities
(Harvard Business School Press, 2006)
Warren G. Bennis and Robert Townsend,
Reinventing Leadership: Strategies to Empower the Organization
(Collins Business Essentials, 2005)
Nearly every author alive who has written a significant book on leadership gathered recently at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government to celebrate the patriarch of their field, the redoubtable 81-year-old Warren Bennis. The emcee of the event estimated that the total number of books sold by those in the room was, even after deducting remainders, some 30 million. As
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The Marshall Institute’s recommendations for the festive break
As we near the end of 2021, the Institute’s team share their top picks from the year of what to read, watch and listen to.
Jonathan Roberts, Teaching Director
Working to create social impact requires deep engagement with the lives and experiences of others. Bernardine Evaristo’s novel Girl, Woman, Other offers a profound but accessible narrative of intersectionality: women’s identities, their lived experiences and the challenges they face are complex intersections of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, culture and class. Freddie Mercury: the Final Actis a clever interweaving of the rock star’s story with the suffering and experiences of others during the AIDS / HIV pandemic. It’s a poignant reminder of what happens when society’s structures and norms repress people’s identities and construct them as ‘the other’. Finally, rather than trying to understand the lives of others and enact social interventions accordingly, perhaps we should strive to cede power and agency so that individuals and communities take control of their own lives. This is a powerful message fromThe Systems Work of Social Changeby Cynthia Rayner and François Bonnici.
Stephan Chambers, Institute Director