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The secret of Warren Bennis’s success

Though the size of Warren Bennis’s obituary in the New York Times was epic – all six columns across, filling most of the space above the fold on the back page of the A section – its text made no mention of something about him I always thought inextricable from who he was and the success he achieved.
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August 6, 2014

Though the size of Warren Bennis’s obituary in the “>creativity and collaboration in front of a packed house at USC.  I was sometimes challenged to keep him on topic – in his ninth decade, his anecdotes could be discursive, and nested like the tales of Sheherazade – but I needn’t have worried about holding the audience. What he said about everyone from Stephen Sondheim to Steve Jobs held the audience rapt, but as an insurance policy he’d also worn some

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