Warren Bennis Quotes

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

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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.

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

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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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