Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Warren G. Bennis (23)

Birth:	8th March, 1925
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Consultant, Professor, Scholar

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

  Warren G. Bennis

  Topics in Challenge, Leadership

  Tags in Acceptance, Status

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

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

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• There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

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

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

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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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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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