Geeks and Geezers First Edition by Warren G Bennis, Robert Thomas ISBN 1578515823 9781578515820

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ISBN 10: 1578515823

ISBN 13: 9781578515820 

Author: Warren G. Bennis, Robert Thomas

Today’s young leaders grew up in the glow of television and computers; the leaders of their grandparents’ generation in the shadow of the Depression and World War II. In a groundbreaking study of these two disparate groups-affectionately labeled “geeks” and “geezers”-legendary leadership expert Warren Bennis and leadership consultant Robert Thomas set out to find out how era and values shape those who lead. What they discovered was something far more profound: the powerful process through which leaders of any era emerge.

Geeks and Geezers is a book that will forever change how we view not just leadership—but the very way we learn and ultimately live our lives. It presents for the first time a compelling new model that predicts who is likely to become—and remain—a leader, and why.

At the heart of this model are what the authors call “crucibles”—utterly transforming periods of testing from which one can emerge either hopelessly broken, or powerfully emboldened to learn and to lead. Whether losing an election or burying a child, learning from a mentor or mastering a martial art, crucibles are turning points: defining events that force us to decide who we are and what we are capable of.

Through the candid and often deeply moving crucibles of pioneering journalist Mike Wallace to new economy entrepreneur Michael Klein, from New York Stock Exchange trailblazer Muriel Siebert to environmental crusader Tara Church, Geeks and Geezers illustrates the stunning metamorphoses of true leaders. It also reveals the critical traits they share, including adaptability, vision, integrity, unquenchable optimism, and “neoteny”—a youthful curiosity and zest for knowledge.

Highlighting the forces that enable any of us to learn and lead not for a time, but for a lifetime, this book is essential reading for geeks, geezers, and everyone in between.

Based on a cross-generational study of 45 leaders ranging in age from 21 to 93, Geeks and Geezers proposes a new model of leadership. Whereas most of the leadership literature focuses on the traits and habits of successful leaders, Geeks and Geezers introduces several novel concepts to describe the underlying patterns of experience that characterize great leaders. These include the concepts of a “crucible,” the confluence of transformative events and circumstances through which individuals learn resilience and adaptability, and “neoteny,” a term borrowed from zoology that suggests the vitality or “innocence in action” that impels great leaders to drive toward the future.

The book also explores the role that mentoring–not simply focusing on the importance of being coached, but on the ability to identify the right teachers and to be “first-class noticers”–plays in the development of lifetime leaders. Geeks and Geezers is rich with stories from well-known leaders (including, in the geezer category, architect Frank Gehry, coaching legend John Wooden, the SEC’s Arthur Levitt, Jr., television journalist Mike Wallace and, weighing in for the geeks, high-tech entrepreneur Sky Dayton, social philanthropist Wendy Kopp, and environmentalist Tara Church). Taken together, these stories offer much more than a collection of useful and memorable anecdotes. Rather, Geeks and Geezers is nothing less than a compelling new theory of leadership, one that explains how leaders develop the capacity to grow for a lifetime and how their response to personal tragedies and professional challenges have uniquely shaped them.

Table of contents:

Preface
Acknowledgements
Foreword

Chapter 1: Leading and Learning for a Lifetime
Chapter 2: Geezers: The Era of Limits
Chapter 3: Geeks: The Era of Options
Chapter 4: Crucibles of Leadership
Chapter 5: The Alchemy of Leadership
Chapter 6: A Passion for the Promises of Life

Appendix A: Biographies
Appendix B: Interview Questions

Notes
Index
About the Authors

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