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.
trust service-culture organization
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
doubt faith-and-doubt
Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.
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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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Cicero talks, and people marvel; Ceasar talks and people march
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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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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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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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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?"
leadership skills people
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
leadership skills followers
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
balance important groups
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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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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The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.