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Title: Why Leaders Can't Lead : The Unconscious Conspiracy Continues by Warren Bennis ISBN: 0-7879-0943-2 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 07 July, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2 (4 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Sad
Comment: I read this several years ago, set it aside, and idly picked it up to reread recently. I had forgotten just how bad this book is. It's the cry of a frustrated 1960s liberal who found, at the end of the 1980s, that the world had refused to reshape itself in accordance with his utopian wishes. Bennis is usually pretty coherent, but this book isn't. Rather than providing insight into the dilemmas of leadership, it really makes me wonder if Bennis knows much about leading at all.

Rating: 1
Summary: 80% Rant
Comment: I am mystified why Peter Drucker would lend his endorsement to this book. I'm only 70 pages into it, but have elected to write my first book review because I DISLIKE this book!

So far, I have read chapter after chapter of ranting about why the golden of age of America began in 1962 and ended in 1963. Television, fast food, yuppies, and above all, rock and roll, have conspired to corrupt America and with it, ostensibly, the world.

What a crock! How about getting on with life!

Rating: 1
Summary: Bennis' style is chaotic and has a serious left-wing bias.
Comment: I agree with Bennis' premise that there is an "Unconscious Conspiracy" which sucks the life and creativity out of would be modern leaders. However, I was extremely disappointed in the chaotic prose and exclusive stabs at politically conservative leaders. For example, he highlighted Ralph Nader as an example of a good modern leader.

Throughout the book, I had trouble figuring out what Bennis was trying to convey. I don't normally hate a book, having loved so many before. But I hate this one. Stick to Dilbert, it's more apropo.

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