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Warren G. Bennis - From the Accomplishment category:
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. (Warren G. Bennis)
Warren G. Bennis - From the Collaboration category:
The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause. (Warren G. Bennis)
Warren G. Bennis - From the Creativity category:
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 G. Bennis)
Warren G. Bennis - From the Danger category:
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born... (Warren G. Bennis)
Warren G. Bennis - From the Education category:
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)
Warren G. Bennis - From the Emotion category:
Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work... I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn't make you a star. Emotional intelligence can. (Warren G. Bennis)
Warren G. Bennis - From the Excellence category:
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. (Warren G. Bennis)
Warren G. Bennis - From the Growth category:
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. (Warren G. Bennis)
Warren G. Bennis - From the Information category:
There is a profound difference between information and meaning. (Warren G. Bennis)
Warren G. Bennis - From the Information category:
We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven't devised a means of using it. (Warren G. Bennis)
Warren G. Bennis - From the Innovation category:
Innovation - any new idea - by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience. (Warren G. Bennis)
Warren G. Bennis - From the Invention category:
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. (Warren G. Bennis)
Warren G. Bennis - From the Leadership category:
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. (Warren G. Bennis)
Warren G. Bennis - From the Power category:
Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. (Warren G. Bennis)
Warren G. Bennis - From the Problems category:
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn best by leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders. (Warren G. Bennis)
Warren G. Bennis - From the Technology category:
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. (Warren G. Bennis)
Warren G. Bennis - From the Trust category:
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. (Warren G. Bennis)
Warren G. Bennis - From the Vision category:
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action... Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. (Warren G. Bennis)
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