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| READING LIST |
ORGANIZING GENIUS by Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman
"Accounts of teams at Disney, Lockheed, Apple, and elsewhere."
ANNAPURNA: A WOMAN'S PLACE by Arlene Blum
"A personal story of learning to lead a climbing team on one of the world's challenging mountains."
CORPS BUSINESS: THE 30 MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES OF THE U.S. MARINES
by David H. Freedman
"How the Marine Corps builds leadership and organization for fast action in
fast-changing conditions, and how business can do the same."
LEADING MINDS by Howard Gardner
"The shared elements of leadership seen in Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Thatcher and others."
ON LEADERSHIP by John Gardner
"Identification and illustration of all the main capabilities of leadership."
INTO THIN AIR by John Krakauer
"What went right — and what went wrong — when three climbing expeditions, all nearing the summit of Mount Everest, were hit by a violent storm."
LOST MOON by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger
"No enterprise can prosper solely on efficiency; it must also have that magic spark of creativity and innovation."
THE ULTIMATE ADVANTAGE by Edward E. Lawler III
"The case for high-involvement, high-performance organizations that draw the best out of everybody."
THE LEADERSHIP ENGINE by Noel M. Tichy
"Effective leadership is the difference between success and failure —
and effective leaders build other leaders throughout the organization."
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THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD by John Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos
"Why Toyota flexible production is changing manufacturing worldwide."
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| BIOGRAPHICAL INFO |
MICHAEL USEEM
Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Leadership
and Change at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Useem is professor of management and director of the Center for Leadership
and Change at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
He is the recipient
of the Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award for Teaching Excellence in the Graduate Division,
1992; Graduate Division Award for excellence in teaching, 1992-95, 1998; and the
Miller-Sherrerd MBA Core Teaching Award, 1993-99. He has served as consulting editor
for Leadership Quarterly, 1992-98; corresponding editor for Theory and Society
from 1981 to the present; on the advisory board of Liberal Education (Journal of the
Association of American Universities and Colleges) from 1990 to 1998; and on the editorial
Board, IRQ: A Quarterly Journal of Investor Relations and Corporate Value, 1997-present.
Professor Useem also serves as a consultant for companies such as Astra/Merck; Bell
Atlantic Corporation; CARE; National Policy Association; National Research Council;
United Nations; World Education, and many other organizations. His research areas
include organizations and management; leadership and governance; corporate change
and restructuring; institutional investors; company social and political programs;
education and employment; and the organization of development programs. Current
projects include work on company leadership in a globalizing equity market; leading
organizational change and restructuring; and the lessons of leadership during periods
of challenge, stress, and uncertainty.
Representative publications include "The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph
and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All,"
"Investor Capitalism: How Money Managers are Changing the Face of Corporate
America," and
"Executive Defense: Shareholder Power and Corporate Reorganization."
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