Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. - Warren G. Bennis
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 G. Bennis
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. - Warren G. Bennis
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. - Warren G. Bennis
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. - Warren G. Bennis
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. - Warren G. Bennis
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
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right. - Warren G. Bennis
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
The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. - Warren G. Bennis
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 G. Bennis
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
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future. - Warren G. Bennis