Book Titles

On Becoming a Leader

By Warren Bennis

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

163 Quotes Found

Quote Image Quote Page Number

On Becoming a Leader:

Every time we teach children something, rather than helping them learn, we keep them from inventing themselves.

065

On Becoming a Leader:

By its very nature, teaching homogenizes, both its subjects and its objects. Learning, on the other hand, liberates.

065

On Becoming a Leader:

The more we know about ourselves and our world, the freer we are to achieve everything we are capable of achieving.

065

On Becoming a Leader:

To free ourselves from habit, to resolve the paradoxes, to transcend conflicts, to become the masters rather than the slaves of our own lives, we must first see and remember, and then forget.

065

On Becoming a Leader:

…learning begins with unlearning…

065

On Becoming a Leader:

Clearly, to become a true leader, one must know the world as well as one knows one’s self.

068

On Becoming a Leader:

…people in business who simply accept conventional wisdom may reach the top of a bureaucratic organization, but they will never use their particular talents to their fullest.

070

On Becoming a Leader:

…innovative learning requires that you trust yourself, that you be self-directed rather than other-directed in both your life and your work.

071

On Becoming a Leader:

If you learn to anticipate the future and shape events rather than being shaped by them you will benefit in significant ways.

071

On Becoming a Leader:

Creative problem solving is a form of innovative learning.

071