Warren Bennis Quotes

Warren Bennis

Profession : Writer

Birth : March 8, 1925

How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

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

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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.

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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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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

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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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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

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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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