Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge

The book’s premise is that leadership is the pivotal force behind successful organizations. In order to create vital and viable organizations, Bennis and Nanus say, leaders must guide the organization to a new vision of what it can be, and then mobilize it and move it toward that vision.

To this end, while noting a distinct difference between management and leadership, Bennis and Nanus present their theory of Transformative Leadership -in which the leader compels people to action, converts followers into leaders, and converts leaders into agents of change.

Through information gleaned from interviews with well-known and successful leaders as well as in-depth organizational studies, Bennis and Nanus are able to provide the reader with solid and usable strategies for attaining the characteristics of a transformative leader and successful leadership within the organization.