I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.

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. Military service & education
Bennis grew up within a working-class Jewish family in Westwood New Jersey before enlisting in the United States Army in 1943. Geeks & Geezers 2002 examines the differences and similarities between leaders thirty years and younger and leaders seventy years and older.

Bennis is University Professor and DistinguiWarren Bennisd Professor of Business Administration and Founding Chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California. Management expert James O'Toole in a 2005 issue of Compass publiWarren Bennisd by Harvard University's John F. Warren Gamaliel Bennis (born March 8 1925) is an American scholar organizational consultant and author widely regarded as a pioneer of the contemporary field of Leadership studies.