From selling peanuts and beer in yankee stadium to creating a theory of transformational leadership (original) (raw)
2000, The Leadership Quarterly
This issue's interview is with Bernard Bass. He started in academia in 1946 and began teaching 52 years ago. When he publishes in the year 2000, he will have published in seven different decades. Besides all of his work in the area of leadership, Dr. Bass is also the co-founder (with Bob House and Henry Tosi) of The Leadership Quarterly. PERSONAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION Question: When and where were you born? And what did your parents do? Did you serve in the military? Bass: I was born on June 11, 1925, in the Bronx, New York City, where I lived until I was 16 years old and attended DeWitt-Clinton high school. We moved to Manhattan after my mother died. By age 14, I was selling popcorn, hot dogs, soft drinks, and beer in Yankee stadium and the Polo Grounds. I saw a lot of important baseball games, including the 1941 World Series (the so-called "subway series") between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers. At age 18, I joined the U.S. Army Airforce (USAAF) to become a navigator-bombardier and ended up in B-29 flight engineering school. Then, the atomic bomb was dropped. I never flew in combat and was discharged in November 1945.
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