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:

To succeed in this volatile environment, leaders must be creative and concerned, yet neither creativity nor concern is high on the agenda of many corporations…

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On Becoming a Leader:

True leaders must be global strategists, innovators, masters of technology, all of which require new knowledge and understanding, which far too few companies supply, or even encourage.

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On Becoming a Leader:

To date, organizations have done far more to stifle leadership than to encourage it.

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On Becoming a Leader:

As organizations transform themselves, they will transform the world.

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On Becoming a Leader:

…the organization must offer its employees the kinds of experiences that will enable them to learn and, finally, to lead.

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On Becoming a Leader:

Leaders are not made by corporate courses, any more than they are made by their college courses, but by experience.

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On Becoming a Leader:

The higher the stakes, the more opportunities there are for learning – and, of course, the more opportunities there are for failures and mistakes.

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On Becoming a Leader:

…if you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t trying hard enough. But as mistakes are necessary, so is a healthy organizational attitude toward them.

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On Becoming a Leader:

All organizations, especially those that are growing, walk a tightrope between stability and change, tradition and revision.

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On Becoming a Leader:

To master the competitive environment, the leader must first understand the challenges of the twenty-first century.

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