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Warren G Bennis Inspirational Quotes (151)

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Understand stakeholder symmetry: Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders.
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All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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The capacity for uncontaminated wonder, ultimately, is what distinguishes the successful from the ordinary, the happily engaged players of whatever era from the chronically disappointed and malcontent. Therein lies a lesson for geeks, geezers, and the sea of people who fall in between.
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Judgment without character is expediency... or worse.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing managers are people who do things right.
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Without character, there is no credibility and without credibility, there is no trust.
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While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.
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People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work... I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn't make you a star. Emotional intelligence can.
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The future has no shelf life
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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.
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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The manager accepts the status quo the leader challenges it.
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Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line the leader has his eye on the horizon.
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