Aired 08/29/10

WARREN BENNIS is perhaps America's leading thinker on leadership, a former university president, an advisor to five presidents, and one of the last of his generation still active in academia (at USC and Harvard). We'll talk about the stories and lessons of Bennis's long and remarkable life and memoir, from WWII to the present.

WARREN BENNIS is founding chairman of the Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California, chairman of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School, and Distinguished Research Fellow at the Harvard Business School. He has written more than twenty-five books on leadership, change, and creative collaboration including Leaders, recently designated by the Financial Times as one of the top 50 business books of all time, and his . most recent, STILL SURPRISED: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership.

http://www.warrenbennis.com/