Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
WARREN G. BENNISEvery great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
More Warren G. Bennis Quotes
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The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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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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Understand the “Gretzky Factor”: Cultivate an instinct, a “touch”, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the “puck” is now and where it will be soon.
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Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
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Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Create 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.
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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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