Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman - Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

The most riveting management book ever, Organizing Genius has the swashbuckling stories of seven Great Groups who changed the world and how they were led.... These are genuinely classic cases of what Brian Eno calls sceniusgroup genius. Besides retelling the stories well, Warren Bennis has the insight (hes the author of excellent books on leadership) to tease out the elements that Great Groups have in common.

Global Business Network book club newsletter

Warren Benniss latest book, and one of his best, teases out organizing secrets to show through case studies that great groups are project-driven.... The authors deliver abundant clues on why some people just work together, and others collaborate for extraordinary achievement.

Cincinnati Enquirer

Mention the name Warren Bennis and the word leadership springs to mind. This latest book by Bennis and coauthor Patricia Ward Biederman... has to rank among his most interesting, entertaining and, ultimately, practical contributions. The stories are insightful, the lessons are well-formulated. For every manager who is confronted with the question, How can I get my people to do a better job? this book provides useful ideas.

Organizational Dynamics

Working from the assumption that none of us is as smart as all of us,... Organizing Genius attempts to uncover the elements of creative collaboration by examining six of this centurys most extraordinary groups.... The stories of how these groups broke new ground make for engrossing reading.

The President

Any new book by Warren Bennis is an event to get excited about.... In Organizing Genius Bennis and Biederman examine six Great Groups in such diverse areas as politics, animation, and the arts.... These are the lessons that virtually any organization can learn and commit to in order to transform its own management team into a collaborative and successful group of leaders.

Government Training News

This well-written book contains an amazing summary (within a relatively small space of 229 pages) of the workings of highly gifted groups. The story of these groups can help educators of the gifted to organize authentic and dynamic cooperative learning environments in their schools and classrooms.

Gifted Education News-Page

Organizing Genius is long overduea jargon-free, pleasure-to-read study of a special kind of teamwork, the kind that sets out to do the impossible and does.

Alvin and Heidi Toffler, authors of The Third Wave

Creative collaboration is the elan vitale of all organizations striving for excellence, and the Take-Home Lessons provided by Professor Bennis and Ms. Biederman will equally benefit the League of Women Voters and Southwest Airlines.

Herb Kelleher, Chairman, President, and CEO,
Southwest Airlines

Organizing Genius is another inspiring, timely contribution from the thought leader of leadership studies, Warren Bennis. It illuminates with wisdom and stories one of the most essential issues for 21st-century managers: how to create collaborative advantage by turning individual talent into teamwork.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, author of World Class

This is an extremely important book. For the first time someone explains why extraordinary groups and extraordinary individuals do fit togetherand must fit togetherto achieve truly exceptional performance.

Tom Peters, author of The Pursuit of WOW!

Once again, Warren Bennis has brought great insight to the work of managers. At a time when companies are going through wrenching changes, Bennis and Pat Biederman describe what it really takes to make critical collaboration work.

James A. Champy, Chair of Consulting, Perot Systems;
coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation

Easy to endorse, creative collaboration is daunting to realize. Drawing on six fascinating case studies, Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman tease out the crucial ingredients of groups that have been notably creative.

Howard Gardner, Professor, Harvard School of Education;
author of Frames of Mind

Through these compelling stories of Great Groups, we learn both the jewels of wisdom that crown the heads of great leaders, and the Achilles heels that turn some leaders into once-great.

Robert W Galvin, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Motorola Inc.

ORGANIZING GENIUS

The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Warren Bennis

Patricia Ward Biederman