An excellent case for NOT going to war with Iraq...
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This was written by one of the top management professors / gurus in the entire world...Here is a bio of USC's Burt Nanus...
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Burt Nanus, D.B.A, is professor emeritus of management at the Marshall School of Business of the University of Southern California, where he served on the faculty from 1969 to 1994. While there, he founded the university's Center for Futures Research and served as its director for sixteen years. Later he helped start the USC Leadership Institute and served as its first director of research.
In the ten years prior to joining USC, Nanus held positions as manager of advanced educational techniques at the Sperry Rand Corporation, senior technical adviser to management at the System Development Corporation, and president of his own consulting firm, Planning Technology, Inc. He holds an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology (1957), a M.S. degree from the Sloan School of Management at MIT (1959), and a D.B.A. degree from the University of Southern California. (1967)
A noted speaker on leadership, Nanus has addressed tens of thousands of executives at major national and international conferences of such organizations as, most recently, Goodwill Industries, the Jewish Community Centers of North America, the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers, and the Larger Community Foundations Association. He has also consulted with numerous nonprofit, government, and business organizations on strategy and leadership. He has served on the editorial boards of five journals and on the board of directors of the Los Angeles Private Industry Council, the California Dispute Resolution Institute and the Center for Excellence in Nonprofits.
He is the author of ten books, seven of them on leadership, including Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge (with Warren Bennis), named by the Financial Times as one of the "top 50 business books of all time." His book Visionary Leadership was a selection of the Book of the Month Club and the Fortune Book Club and has been translated into six languages. Many nonprofit leaders have used his two books for facilitators and participants in vision retreats as part of the process of redirecting their organizations for the next decade. Nanus' most recent book, co-authored with Stephen Dobbs, is the first to comprehensively examine the subject of nonprofit leadership. Entitled Leaders Who Make a Difference, this book provided the criteria for the selection of the CEN Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership Award.
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