Ivey Business Journal

May/June 2001

IN CONVERSATION: WARREN BENNIS
by Stephen Bernhut

"In an analogue world," says one of the foremost authorities on leadership in this interview, "the CEO knew everything. But in the digital world, it's more humility and vulnerability. Leaders have to understand these differences if they want to really create not only intellectual capital but also social capital." Mr. Bennis goes on to describe the challenges facing leaders today and offers his observations on why some of those leaders fail to understand and meet these challenges. He also outlines the qualities that make a leader succeed in these volatile times, and how a leader can create a dynamic organization in which employees work their best and end up wanting to remain with the organization.


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Stephen Bernhut
Stephen Bernhut is the editor of Ivey Business Journal Online. He has been a journalist with Time Magazine, The Globe and Mail and the Financial Post Magazine. He was also a corporate communications consultant, a senior manager in corporate communications, with CIBC Wood Gundy, and a sales and marketing manager, with Mattel and Xerox. Mr. Bernhut is the founding editor of Food and Drink, the lifestyle magazine of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. He is also a recipient of a National Magazine Award (2000), for Best New Magazine (Montage, the magazine of the Directors Guild of Canada).

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