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All Quotes by author - Warren Bennis

" A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others. "

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

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

" How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life? "

" I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. "

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

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

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

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

" Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business. "

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

" Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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