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

Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them. — Warren G. Bennis

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

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

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. — Warren 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 Bennis

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality. — Warren Bennis

Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow. — Warren Bennis

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers. — Warren G. Bennis

Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback. — Warren G. Bennis

Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd. — Warren G. Bennis

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

Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option. — Warren Bennis

The future has no shelf life — Warren G. Bennis

If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power. — Warren G. Bennis

The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success. — Warren G. Bennis

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's present and when it's not. — Warren G. Bennis

The manager administers; the leader innovates. — Warren G. Bennis

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

Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth. — Warren Bennis

The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices. — Warren G. Bennis

Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character — Warren G. Bennis

What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense. — Warren G. Bennis

Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation. — Warren G. Bennis

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. — Warren G. Bennis

More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together. — Warren G. Bennis

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions. — Warren G. Bennis

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing. — Warren G. Bennis

The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change. — Warren G. Bennis

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. — Warren G. Bennis

Managers do things right. Leaders do the right thing. — Warren G. Bennis

In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital. — Warren G. Bennis

A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever. — Warren G. Bennis

Once you recognize, or admit, that your primary goal is to fully express yourself, you will find the means to achieve the rest of your goals ... — Warren G. Bennis

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

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

Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity — Warren G. Bennis

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing. — Warren Bennis

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt. — Warren G. Bennis

The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles. — 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. — Warren G. Bennis

Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination. — Warren G. Bennis

Successful leaders are great askers — Warren G. Bennis

Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided. — 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 Bennis

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. — Warren G. Bennis

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

I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. — Warren G. Bennis

People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support — Warren G. Bennis

Don't over-react to the trouble makers. — Warren G. Bennis

Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept. — Warren G. Bennis

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge. — Warren G. Bennis

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. — Warren Bennis

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself. — Warren G. Bennis

In order to serve its purpose, a vision has to be a shared vision. — Warren G. Bennis

Listening to the inner voice - trusting the inner voice - is one of the most important lessons of leadership. — Warren G. Bennis

Learning to be an effective leader is no different than learning to be an effective person. And that's the hard part — Warren G. Bennis

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership. — Warren G. Bennis

Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream. — Warren G. Bennis

The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person. — Warren G. Bennis

As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world. — Warren Bennis

If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?" — Warren G. Bennis

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. — Warren Bennis

Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to. — 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

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders. — Warren G. Bennis

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

Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table. — Warren G. Bennis

Leadership is the capacity to turn vision into reality. — Warren Bennis

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood. — Warren Bennis

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

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

To be authentic is literally to be your own author, to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them. — Warren G. Bennis

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together. — Warren G. Bennis

Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders. — Warren G. Bennis

Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them. — Warren G. Bennis