Contents

Preface

Thomas G. Cummings, Gretchen M. Spreitzer

Part One: Setting the Stage for the Future

1 The Future Has No Shelf Life

Warren Bennis

2 The Era of Human Capital Has Finally Arrived

Edward E. Lawler III

Part Two: The Organization of the Future

3 A World of Fleas and Elephants

Charles Handy

4 Knowledge Work and the Future of Management

Thomas H. Davenport

5 Boundaryless

Steven Kerr

6 Trust Me On This: Organizational Support for Trust in a World Without Hierarchies

Thomas A. Stewart

Part Three: The Leader of the Future

7 Bringing Leadership Lessons from the Past into the Future

James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner

8 Leadership as the Legitimation of Doubt

Karl E. Weick

9 Leading Yourself

Philip Slater

10 The Context of Creativity

 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

11 Why Do We Tolerate Bad Leaders? Magnificent Uncertitude, Anxiety, and Meaning

 Jean Lipman-Blumen

12 The Evolving Role of Executive Leadership

 Cathy L. Greenberg-Walt, Alastair G. Robertson

13 When Leadership Is an Organizational Trait

 James O'Toole

Part Four: How Leaders Stay On Top of Their Game

14 Just Say Yes!

 Tom Peters

15 Heroic Leadership's Greatest Battle: The Defeat of Disappointment Versus the Disappointment of Defeat

 Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Part Five: Insights from Young Leaders

16 Where the Leaders Are: The Promise of Youth Leadership

 Tara Church

17 Seeking a Newer World

 Edward W. Headington

Part Six: Some Closing Thoughts

18 The Leadership Challenges of the Next Generation

 Gretchen M. Spreitzer, Thomas G. Cummings

Postlude: An Intellectual Memoir

Warren Bennis

Notes and References

Index

The Authors