Works
- The Temporary Society, Harper and Row, New York (first edition, x and 147 pages); revised edition, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1998, 1968
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Leadership studies and the forecast of post-bureaucratic organization
Ideas
Temporary systems. Bennis and Slater argued that organizations would come to rely on temporary systems of diverse specialists assembled around problems and dissolved when the problems were solved. Caveat: A prediction, stated from the work's standard reading, since the text was not read.
In this section, “read” means read by the Organizational Structures series: where a line says a work, or part of one, was not read, the series did not read it.