Warren G. Bennis
Warren G. Bennis
Warren Gamaliel Benniswas an American scholar, organizational consultant and author, widely regarded as a pioneer of the contemporary field of Leadership studies. Bennis was University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration and Founding Chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California...
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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.
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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 made rather than born.
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Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.
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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
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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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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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The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches... facilitate learning.
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Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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I'd always rather err on the side of openness. But there's a difference between optimum and maximum openness, and fixing that boundary is a judgment call. The art of leadership is knowing how much information you're going to pass on - to keep people motivated and to be as honest, as upfront, as you can. But, boy, there really are limits to that.
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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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Successful leaders are great askers