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:

…when we forgo our own thoughts and opinions, they end up coming back to us from the mouths of others. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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On Becoming a Leader:

The real role of the leader is to figure out how you make diverse people and elements work together. – John Sculley

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On Becoming a Leader:

No leaders sets out to be a leader. People set out to live their lives, expressing themselves fully. When that expression is of value, they become leaders.

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On Becoming a Leader:

…the point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, to use yourself completely – all your skills, gifts, and energies – in order to make your vision manifest.

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On Becoming a Leader:

You must withhold nothing. You must… become the person you started out to be, and to enjoy the process of becoming.

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On Becoming a Leader:

…strike hard, try everything, do everything, render everything, and become the person you are capable of being.

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On Becoming a Leader:

Reflection is the pivotal way we learn.

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On Becoming a Leader:

Most of us are shaped more by negative experiences than by positive ones.

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On Becoming a Leader:

When you’re down, think of the things you have to look forward to. When you are no longer in the grip of the mishap, then you are ready to reflect on it.

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On Becoming a Leader:

…mistakes contain potent lessons – but only if we think them through calmly, see where we went wrong, mentally revise what we’re doing, and then act on the revisions.

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