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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 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.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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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
The future has no shelf life
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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
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
— Warren G. Bennis
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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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.
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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.
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In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.
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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.
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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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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.
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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.
— 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
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Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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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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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
— Warren G. 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
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.
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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
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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.
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Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.
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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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If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"
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Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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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.
— Warren G. Bennis
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
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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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Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Leadership is the capacity to turn vision into reality.
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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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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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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
