Warren Gameliel Bennis (born March 8, 1925) is an American scholar, organizational consultant and author who is widely regarded as a pioneer of the contemporary field of leadership studies. ^{[1] [2]} Bennis is University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration and Founding Chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California. ^[3]

“His work at MIT in the 1960s on group behavior foreshadowed -- and helped bring about -- today's headlong plunge into less hierarchical, more democratic and adaptive institutions, private and public,” management expert Tom Peters wrote in 1993 in the foreword to Bennis’ An Invented Life: Reflections on Leadership and Change. ^[4]

Management expert James O’Toole, in a 2005 issue of Compass, published by Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, claimed that Bennis developed “an interest in a then-nonexistent field that he would ultimately make his own -- leadership -- with the publication of his ‘Revisionist Theory of Leadership’ in Harvard Business Review in 1961.” ^[5] O’Toole observed that Bennis challenged the prevailing wisdom by showing that humanistic, democratic-style leaders better suited to dealing with the complexity and change that characterize the leadership environment. ^[6]

Military Service & Education

Bennis grew up within a working-class Jewish family in Westwood, New Jersey, before enlisting in 1943 in the United States Army. He would go on to serve as the Army’s youngest infantry officer in the European theater of operations, and was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. ^[7]

He enrolled in Antioch College in 1947 following his military service. Antioch president Douglas McGregor, considered one of the founders of the modern democratic management philosophy, would take on Bennis as a protégé, a scholarly relationship that would prove fruitful when both later served as professors at the MIT Sloan School of Management. [There, Bennis would hold the post of chairman of the Organizational Studies Department.] ^[8]

Career

Within the area of management, Bennis sought to move from theory to practice in 1967, taking the post of provost of the State University of New York at Buffalo and the presidency of the University of Cincinnati in 1971. He authored two books on leadership during his presidency: The Leaning Ivory Tower, 1973, and The Unconscious Conspiracy: Why Leaders Can’t Lead, 1976. ^[9]

Bennis chose to return to the life of a teacher, consultant and author following a heart attack in 1979, joining the faculty of the University of Southern California. Most of the best-known of his 27 books followed, including the bestselling Leaders and On Becoming A Leader, both translated into 21 languages. ^[10] An Invented Life was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. More recent books, Organizing Genius, 1997, Co-Leaders, 1999, and Managing The Dream, 2000, summarize Bennis’s interests in leadership, judgment, organizational change and creative collaboration. Geeks & Geezers, 2002, examines the differences and similarities between leaders thirty years and younger and leaders seventy years and older.^[11][12]

Bennis spent time as an adviser to four United States presidents and several other public figures, and has also consulted for numerous FORTUNE 500 companies. ^[13]

He has also spent time on the faculties of Harvard and Boston University and taught at the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta, INSEAD and IMD. In addition to his current posts at USC, Bennis serves as chairman of the Advisory Board of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University’s Kennedy School. He is a visiting professor of leadership at the University of Exeter (UK) and a senior fellow at UCLA’s School of Public Policy and Social Research.

Impact

Bennis’ impact on the fields of leadership and management theory is significant. The Wall Street Journal named him as one of the top ten speakers on management in 1993; Forbes magazine referred to him as the “dean of leadership gurus” in 1996. The Financial Times referred to Bennis in 2000 as “the professor who established leadership as a respectable academic field.” ^[14]

Werner Erhard

Erhard Seminars Training

Warren Bennis took the est Training in London, in 1979 :

Another scholar who knows Erhard well is Warren Bennis, professor of business administration at USC. Bennis took the est training in 1979 in London: "It gave me a good sense of who I was at a critical period in my life. I had just ended my time as university president, and I was looking around for new directions."^[15]

Werner Erhard and Associates Bennis later served as a consultant to Werner Erhard and Associates in the 1980s:

Bennis, who during the early 1980s served as a consultant to Erhard, giving advice on organizational design and leadership techniques, felt that what the training provided in those years was a "restoration of the self": "I'm sort of a loner among my colleagues. The people I know have profited from it. I don't think it deserved the bad press it has gotten. Personally, I haven't met a person who has gone through it and not profited."

But Bennis adds that there were problems: "The bad part is the proselytizing, the phone calls you get, the language; there's something missing in the aesthetic of it. And another problem has been the dependence upon Werner himself. Which is not his problem. If you're in that kind of position, sometimes you get disciples as opposed to students."

"I have to say," adds Bennis, "that it's an incredible puzzle for me that he has acquired such a negative image among so many people. I detect a lot of hostility, and I don't understand it. A lot of my friends are Jewish, and I'm Jewish, and often they see est as a quick fix for making money from losers.

"But many of my colleagues who criticize Erhard have grown up in a deterministic environment. The world they know was created by Freud, Darwin and Marx -- all men who believed in limits. I think Erhard is talking from a different perspective, and sometimes that's threatening to people who are resigned to the death-on-the-installment plan."^[15]

John F. Kennedy School of government

Werner Erhard and his associate Gonneke Spits attended this event in honor of Bennis :

Werner Erhard, individual, organizational, and social transformation expert; and Gonneke Spits, who has worked with Werner Erhard for the past 40 years^[16]

Appears in Documentary

In 2006, Warren Bennis appeared in the Robyn Symon documentary: Transformation: The Life and Legacy of Werner Erhard.^[17]

Associated Publications

• Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge, by Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus. HarperCollins, 1985.
• Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge, by Warren G. Bennis and Burt Nanus. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

Philip Kotler (born 27 May 1931 in Chicago) is the S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.He received his master's degree at the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. at MIT, both in economics.He did postdoctoral work in mathematics at Harvard university and in behavioral management.He was selected as the #4 management guru of all time by the Financial Times (behind Jack Welch, Bill Gates, and Peter Drucker), and has been hailed by the Management Centre Europe as "the world's foremost expert on the strategic practice of marketing." Also considered one of the pioneers of social marketing.

Dr. Kotler has authored what is widely recognized as the best selling textbook on marketing: Marketing Management, now in its 12th edition. He has also authored, or co-authored a number of other books, including Kotler on Marketing; Lateral Marketing; Strategic Marketing for Non-Profits; Marketing for Healthcare Organizations; Marketing Professional Services; Marketing From A to Z; The 10 Deadly Marketing Sins; Marketing Moves; Marketing places; the Marketing of Nations; and Social Marketing.

In addition, Dr. Kotler has published more than one hundred articles in leading journals, including the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Business Horizons, California Management Review, and the Journal of Marketing. He holds many major awards, including the Distinguished Marketing Educator of the Year Award of the American Marketing Association and Marketer of the Year by the Sales & Marketing Executives International (SMEI).

Through his consulting firm, the Kotler Marketing Group (KMG), Dr. Kotler has consulted to many major U.S. and foreign companies - including IBM, Michelin, Bank of America, Merck, General Electric, Honeywell, and Motorola - in the areas of marketing strategy and planning, marketing organization, and international marketing.

He presents continuing seminars on leading marketing concepts and developments to companies and organizations in the U.S., Europe and Asia, and participates in KMG client projects.

Empirical research by Philip Kotler

In 2002 Professor Byron Sharp posted a question to the marketing academic email list ELMAR asking if Philip Kotler had ever made any empirical discoveries. Kotler replied (edited): "Dr. Byron Sharp raises a fair question. Most of my empirical work has been in consulting engagements where I would arrange for marketing research studies to yield evidence for the company's best strategy move.

Being trained as an economist, most of my early intellectual work consisted in building models of how marketing works. Later I worked on developing new concepts for marketing theory and practice, such as demarketing, social marketing, megamarketing, synchromarketing, place marketing, person marketing, etc. I remember a remark of Paul Samuelson, my mentor: "It is difficult enough to develop theory than to take the time to prove it. That work can be done by others."

Golden State Warriors forward/center Chris Webber announced his retirement from the NBA this morning at a press conference at ORACLE Arena, closing the final chapter on a 15-year NBA career that included five All-Star appearances and five All-NBA Team selections.

“There have been so many people who have supported me through my career, from players to coaches to fans,” said Webber. “I appreciate all the owners, GMs, doctors, equipment managers, trainers, ballkids and staff who not only supported me, but helped propel me to the next level. I do not take your love for granted. I look forward to continuing these relationships in my future basketball and business endeavors.”

Webber, 35, finishes his career having averaged 20.7 points, 9.8 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 1.44 steals, 1.44 blocks and 37.1 minutes per contest in 831 regular-season games with Golden State, Washington, Sacramento, Philadelphia and Detroit. Additionally, he participated in the NBA Playoffs 10 times during his career, appearing in 80 games with averages of 18.7 points, 8.7 rebounds and 3.6 assists in 36.3 minutes per game. Webber earned a spot on the Eastern Conference All-Star squad in 1997 while with Washington and made four-straight appearance on the Western Conference All-Star team as a member of the Sacramento Kings from 2000 thru 2003. He also was a five-time All-NBA selection, having earned first team honors in 2001, second team honors in 1999, 2002, 2003 and third team honors in 2000.

The Detroit, MI, native returned for his second stint with Golden State in 2007-08, having signed as a free agent on January 29, 2008. In nine games this season, the 6-10, 245-pound Webber averaged 3.9 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2.0 assists in 14.0 minutes per contest. Webber’s signing with Golden State marked a return to where his NBA career started, as the University of Michigan product spent his rookie season (1993-94) with the Warriors after originally being selected by Orlando with the first overall pick in the 1993 NBA Draft and then being acquired by the Warriors in a draft night trade. In his first season playing for the Warriors and head coach Don Nelson, Webber was named NBA Rookie of the Year after averaging 17.5 points, 9.1 rebounds, 3.6 assists, 1.22 steals and 2.16 blocks.

YEAR-TEAM	G	MIN	FG	FGA	PCT	3FG	3FA	PCT	FT	FTA	PCT	OFF	DEF	TOT	AST	STL	BLK	PTS	RPG	APG	PPG
93-94-GS	76	2438	572	1037	0.552	0	14	0	189	355	0.532	305	389	694	272	93	164	1333	9.1	3.6	17.5
94-95-Wash.	54	2067	464	938	0.495	40	145	0.276	117	233	0.502	200	318	518	256	83	85	1085	9.6	4.7	20.1
95-96-Wash.	15	558	150	276	0.543	15	34	0.441	41	69	0.594	37	77	114	75	27	9	356	7.6	5	23.7
96-97-Wash.	72	2806	604	1167	0.518	60	151	0.397	177	313	0.565	238	505	743	331	122	137	1445	10.3	4.6	20.1
97-98-Wash.	71	2809	647	1341	0.482	65	205	0.317	196	333	0.589	176	498	674	273	111	124	1555	9.5	3.8	21.9
98-99-Sacr.	42	1719	378	778	0.486	4	34	0.118	79	174	0.454	149	396	545	173	60	89	839	13	4.1	20
99-00-Sacr.	75	2880	748	1548	0.483	27	95	0.284	311	414	0.751	189	598	787	345	120	128	1834	10.5	4.6	24.5
00-01-Sacr.	70	2836	786	1635	0.481	2	28	0.071	324	461	0.703	179	598	777	294	93	118	1898	11.1	4.2	27.1
01-02-Sacr.	54	2071	532	1075	0.495	5	19	0.263	253	338	0.749	150	396	546	258	90	76	1322	10.1	4.8	24.5
02-03-Sacr.	67	2622	661	1433	0.461	5	21	0.238	215	354	0.607	160	544	704	364	106	88	1542	10.5	5.4	23
03-04-Sacr.	23	831	174	421	0.413	1	5	0.2	81	114	0.711	48	152	200	105	31	20	430	8.7	4.6	18.7
04-05-Sac./Phi.	67	2370	555	1283	0.433	15	44	0.341	181	228	0.744	130	482	612	318	94	53	1306	9.1	4.7	19.5
05-06-Phila.	75	2893	617	1422	0.434	21	77	0.273	263	348	0.756	184	557	741	256	103	62	1518	9.9	3.4	20.2
06-07-Phi./Det.	61	1821	289	639	0.452	4	11	0.364	102	160	0.638	124	313	437	188	60	41	684	7.2	3.1	11.2
07-08-GS	9	126	15	31	0.484	0	0	.---	5	12	0.417	2	30	32	18	4	6	35	3.6	2	3.9
TOTALS	831	30846	7192	15024	0.479	264	883	0.299	2534	3906	0.649	2271	5853	8124	3526	1197	1200	17182	9.8	4.2	20.7