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:

In innovative learning, one must not only recognize existing contexts, but be capable of imagining future contexts.

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On Becoming a Leader:

By examining and understanding the past, we can move into the future unencumbered by it. We become free to express ourselves, rather than needlessly trying to prove ourselves.

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On Becoming a Leader:

There is nothing you can do about your early life now, except to understand it. You can, however, do everything about the rest of your life.

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On Becoming a Leader:

Universities, unfortunately, are not always the best place to learn. Too many of them are less places of higher learning than they are high-class vocational schools.

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On Becoming a Leader:

We need to wander through all the woods at our disposal, and out of all that to begin to understand ourselves and the world.

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On Becoming a Leader:

One of the marvelous things about life is that any gaps in your education can be filled, whatever your age or situation, by reading, and thinking about what you read.

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On Becoming a Leader:

This is how learning is meant to be – active, passionate, and person. What you read should be grist for your own mill; you should make it yours.

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On Becoming a Leader:

The stranger in a strange land sees more and sees fresh.

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On Becoming a Leader:

Being on the road not only requires the full deployment of one’s self, it redeploys one, tests one’s strengths and weaknesses, and exposes new strengths and weaknesses.

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On Becoming a Leader:

As much as we each need… regular respite, we need true engagement too; we need mentors and friends and groups of allied souls.

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