Provocation 101
Fast Company, issue 54 - January 2002, page 108
by Paul C. Judge
"Larry Weber is trying to provoke you. He wants to take your tired cliche-ridden definition of leadership and turn it upside down. Here's a look at the leader of today: the provocateur."
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Quick Study
Business 2.0, January 2002
by Tom Ehrenfeld
"Provocateurs are the leaders and visionaries of the new economy. Think Larry Ellison of Oracle. Provocateurs build communities, share information, embrace open systems, and relentlessly focus on the customer. Generals don't."
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"The Provocateur is a stunning book that leaders from business, politics, and academia should treasure for it is filled with shrewd insights and fascinating stories about leadership at all levels."

Doris Kearns Goodwin
Historian and Biographer


"Like Larry himself, The Provocateur is engaging, insightful and slightly irreverent. It is a book all current and aspiring leaders should read, and read again.

Geraldine Ferraro


"Timeless entrepreneurial wisdom, company-building management tips, hardnosed Internet savvy and a hard jolt for aspiring 21st Century leaders."

Jim Mullen,
Founder, Mullen Advertising


"The Generals of the mass marketing business world are at a loss when it comes to surviving and prospering at a time when customer relationships - - not products - - create wealth. The new Relationship Age requires new leaders. Now Larry Weber has provided a marvelously useful road map for tomorrow's business leaders to follow.

The Provocateur provides the answer to how a new generation of 24/7 managers can handle the challenging trade-off between control and creativity. Whether you are the leader of a company or of a project team within the company, you can profit greatly from the skills spotlighted in this brilliant, insightful and very enjoyable book."

Stan Rapp
Co-Author,
Max-e-Marketing in the Net Future and the MaxiMarketing Trilogy


"Larry's experience of more than two decades interacting with most of the important business and educational leaders of our time, lend The Provocateur an air of practical reality that blends thoroughly with the brilliance of it's vision. It should be required reading for all current and aspiring CEO's, and those that work for the good and the bad."

R. Bruce Journey,
CEO and Publisher, Technology Review, Inc.


"Larry Weber's new book is fascinating, well-written, and provides a brilliant comparison between "old think" and "new think" in leadership. Though it is written for the businessman, I found it applicable to my business as well, and would think it has value for anyone in a position of leadership today."

Keith Lockhart,
Conductor, Boston Pops Orchestra