Book Titles

On Becoming a Leader

By Warren Bennis

Year Published: 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0465014088
Categories: Leadership, Management, Success

163 Quotes Found

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On Becoming a Leader:

Leaders not only manage change, they must be comfortable with it in their own lives.

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On Becoming a Leader:

…leaders… deal with this mercurial world by anticipating, looking not just down the road, but around the corner; by seeing change as an opportunity, rather than an obstacle; and by accepting it, rather than resisting it.

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On Becoming a Leader:

Resisting change is as futile as resisting weather, and change – relentless change – is our weather now. It is that constant and unpredictable.

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On Becoming a Leader:

Change cannot be viewed as the enemy – instead, it is the source of both personal growth and organizational salvation.

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On Becoming a Leader:

Only by changing themselves can organizations get back into the game and get to the heart of things.

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On Becoming a Leader:

In this service-intensive, information-intensive age, every organization’s primary resource is its people.

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On Becoming a Leader:

…vision, like the world itself, is dynamic, not static, and must be renewed, adapted, adjusted. And when it becomes too dim, it must be abandoned and replaced.

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On Becoming a Leader:

Only the most innovative organizations have begun truly to tap into their primary resource, their people, much less giving them the means to do what they are capable of doing.

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On Becoming a Leader:

Ruthless management may succeed in holding change at bay for a while, but only visionary leadership will succeed over time.

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On Becoming a Leader:

When visionary leadership is combined with sound business practices, the results can be success that lasts.

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