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:

Groups, gatherings of friends or associates, sometimes, simply sustain and encourage their members, as with old school friends, army buddies, business pals.

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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:

Study, travel, people, work, play, reflection, all are sources of knowledge and understanding, but so, curiously, are mistakes.

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On Becoming a Leader:

Trusting the impulse always leads to growth, although sometimes through mistakes. Sometimes trusting the impulse leads directly to brilliance.

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On Becoming a Leader:

There are lessons in everything, and if you are fully deployed, you will learn most of them.

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On Becoming a Leader:

Experiences aren’t truly yours until you think about them, analyze them, examine them, question them, reflect on them, and finally understand them.

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On Becoming a Leader:

Life has never been simple and is growing more complex all the time, yet we persist in attempting to reduce it to bumper-sticker dimensions.

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On Becoming a Leader:

It is the individual, operating at the peak of his or her creative and moral powers, who will revive our organizations, by reinventing both self and them.

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On Becoming a Leader:

…corporate culture, along with society as a whole, recognizes and rewards left-brain accomplishments and tends to discount right-brain achievements.

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On Becoming a Leader:

Our culture needs more right-brain qualities, needs to be more intuitive, conceptual, synthesizing, and artistic. And so, of course, do we.

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