Warren Bennis
United States
8 Mar 1925 // 31 Jul 2014
Organizational Consultant and Author
8 Mar 1925 // 31 Jul 2014
Organizational Consultant and Author
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Leaders configure the context while managers surrender to it.
'Managing the Dream,' Training Management (1990)
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
Economic activity should not only be efficient in its use of resources but should also be socially just, and environmentally and ecologically sustainable.
Beyond Leadership: Balancing Economics, Ethics and Ecology (1994)
Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be.
Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration (1998)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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