Warren Bennis Quotes
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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.
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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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One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.
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I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.
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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.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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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.
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Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.
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The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.
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Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.
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A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
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Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.