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Warren G. Bennis Famous Quotes

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

~ Warren G. Bennis

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 G. Bennis

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

~ Warren G. Bennis

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

~ Warren G. Bennis

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

~ Warren G. Bennis

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

~ Warren G. Bennis

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

~ Warren G. Bennis

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

~ Warren G. Bennis

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

~ Warren G. Bennis

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

~ Warren G. Bennis

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 G. Bennis

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 G. Bennis

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

~ Warren G. Bennis

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

~ Warren G. Bennis

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

~ Warren G. Bennis

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

~ Warren G. Bennis

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 ma

~ Warren G. Bennis

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 G. Bennis

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

~ Warren G. Bennis

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

~ Warren G. Bennis

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

~ Warren G. Bennis

Warren G. Bennis Biography

Warren G. Bennis Famous Quotes