Over 20 quotes from scholar, organizational consultant and author, widely regarded as a pioneer of the contemporary field of Leadership studies, Warren G. Bennis

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A Collection of Quotes
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Warren G. Bennis

2. Warren Gamaliel Bennis was an American scholar,
organizational consultant and author, widely
regarded as a pioneer of the contemporary field of
Leadership studies.
Born: March 8, 1925, New York City, NY
Died: July 31, 2014, Los Angeles, CA
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3. “Leadership is the
capacity to translate
vision into reality.”
- Warren G. Bennis
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4. “Failing organizations are
usually over-managed and
under-led.”
- Warren G. Bennis
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5. “Managers do things
right. Leaders do the
right thing.”
- Warren G. Bennis
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6. “The manager
accepts the status
quo; the leader
challenges it.”
- Warren G. Bennis
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7. “Leaders must encourage
their organizations to
dance to forms of music
yet to be heard.”
- Warren G. Bennis
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8. “Leaders must encourage
their organizations to
dance to forms of music
yet to be heard.”
- Warren G. Bennis
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9. “In a time of drastic change,
it is the learners who inherit
the future. The learned find
themselves equipped to live
in a world that no longer
exists.”
- Warren G. Bennis
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10. “If knowing yourself and being
yourself were as easy to do as to talk
about, there wouldn’t be nearly so
many people walking around in
borrowed postures, spouting
secondhand ideas, trying desperately
to fit in rather than to stand out.”
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11. “Too many companies believe people
are interchangeable. Truly gifted
people never are. They have unique
talents. Such people cannot be forced
into roles they are not suited for, nor
should they be. Effective leaders allow
great people to do the work they were
born to do.”
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12. “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
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13. “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.”
- Warren G. Bennis
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14. “In life, change is
inevitable. In
business, change is
vital.”
- Warren G. Bennis
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15. “Silence - not dissent
- is the one answer
that leaders should
refuse to accept.”
- Warren G. Bennis
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16. “Great Groups need to
know that the person at
the top will fight like a
tiger for them.”
- Warren G. Bennis
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17. “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
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18. “Too many companies believe people
are interchangeable. Truly gifted
people never are. They have unique
talents. Such people cannot be forced
into roles they are not suited for, nor
should they be. Effective leaders allow
great people to do the work they were
born to do.”
- Warren G. Bennis
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19. “Leaders are people who
believe so passionately
that they can seduce other
people into sharing their
dream.”
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20. “Who succeeds in forming and leading
a Great Group? He or she is almost
always a pragmatic dreamer. They are
people who get things done, but they
are people with immortal longings.
Often, they are scientifically minded
people with poetry in their souls.”
- Warren G. Bennis
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21. “Leadership is the wise
use of power. Power is
the capacity to translate
intention into reality and
sustain it.”
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22. “More leaders have been
made by accident,
circumstance, sheer grit, or
will than have been made by
all the leadership courses put
together.”
- Warren G. Bennis
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