Warren Bennis Quotes
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven’t devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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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.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
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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.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless … someone's got to make a wake up call.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.