Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
WARREN G. BENNISCoaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
WARREN G. BENNISThe 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. BENNISListening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
WARREN G. BENNISSomeone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
WARREN G. BENNISLeaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
WARREN G. BENNISYou need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
WARREN G. BENNISThat’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
WARREN G. BENNISI used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
WARREN G. BENNISGreat things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
WARREN G. BENNISCreate strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.
WARREN G. BENNISThe most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
WARREN G. BENNISThe manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
WARREN G. BENNISThe American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as “a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures.”
WARREN G. BENNISIf great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
WARREN G. BENNISLeaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
WARREN G. BENNISBecoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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