Warren Bennis quotes

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. (Warren Bennis)
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. View quote
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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. View quote
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. View quote
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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. View quote
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Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning. View quote
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right. View quote
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. View quote
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. (Warren Bennis)
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. View quote
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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future. View quote
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. View quote
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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. View quote
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The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. View quote
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line. View quote
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning. View quote
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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. View quote
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing. View quote
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Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right thing. Both roles are crucial, and they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing the wrong things well. (Warren Bennis)
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. View quote
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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