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Warren Bennis

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

— Warren Bennis reality

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

— Warren Bennis dying

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

— Warren Bennis music

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

— Warren Bennis self

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

— Warren Bennis man

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

— Warren Bennis people

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

— Warren Bennis people

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

— Warren Bennis men

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

— Warren Bennis ideas

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

— Warren Bennis art

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

— Warren Bennis future

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

— Warren Bennis eyes

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

— Warren Bennis leadership

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

— Warren Bennis men

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

— Warren Bennis people

Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

— Warren Bennis truth

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

— Warren Bennis man

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

— Warren Bennis man

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

— Warren Bennis life

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

— Warren Bennis man

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

— Warren Bennis work

Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

— Warren Bennis change

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

— Warren Bennis men

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

— Warren Bennis balance

I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.

— Warren Bennis man

A new leader has to be able to change an organisation that is dreamless, soulless and vision-less.

— Warren Bennis change

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