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Warren Bennis
American Writer
Born: Mar 8, 1925
Died: Jul 31, 2014
Business Leader Leadership Management People Will
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. Warren Bennis
Leadership Reality Vision Capacity Translate
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 Bennis
Future Man Dog Will Employees Touching Only Factory Feed Equipment Keep Two
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing. Warren Bennis
Success Learning Management World Changing Requires Fast
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 Bennis
Teacher Better Mediocrity Everywhere Insights Only Excellence Studying Exemplary Truly Than Ordinary Lessons Original Found Profound
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 Bennis
Leadership People Dangerous Made Myth Charismatic Born Rather Fact Factor Simply Leaders True Genetic Most Qualities Nonsense Opposite Than In Fact Either Certain
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Warren Bennis
Good Heart People Leaders Feel Make Periphery Very Things
There is a profound difference between information and meaning. Warren Bennis
Between Difference Information Meaning Profound
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others. Warren Bennis
Balance Important Others Appropriate Consideration Claims Find Some More Various Than Stakeholders Groups Deserve Competing
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 Bennis
Creative Dance Dancers Ways Environment Sing Singers Being Which Create Flourish Two
The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. Warren Bennis
Perspective Leader Manager View
The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations. Warren Bennis
Education Knowledge Business Management Impart Variety Could Primary Primary Goal Conceived Goal Situations Originally Applied
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. Warren Bennis
Finance Together Experience Management Behavior Two-Year Programs Marketing Both Most Operations Provide Link Essential Essential Elements Capacity Regular Organizational Elements
Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business. Warren Bennis
Business Learning Endeavor Community Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Evolved Thousands Thousands Of Years Face-To-Face Ideal Over Always Years May Human Humans
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. Warren Bennis
Best Leadership Inventing Through Had Course MIT Were Experiences Teaching Film

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