Managers are people who do things right, and leaders are people who do the right things.
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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
... power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power Transformative leadership.
Warren G. Bennis
The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
Warren G. Bennis
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
Warren G. Bennis
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