No leader 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. So 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. You must withhold nothing. You, must, in sum, become the person you started out to be, and to enjoy the process of becoming.
– Warren Bennis
… has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless … someone’s got to make a wake up call.
– Warren Bennis
… has to be able to change an organisation that is dreamless, soulless and visionless… someone’s got to make a wake up call.
– Warren Bennis
… has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless… someone’s got to make a wake up call
– Warren Bennis
… asks how and when; the leader asks what and why
– Warren Bennis
leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting
– Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus
how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be
– Warren Bennis
….. other leaders from the ranks isn’t just the duty of the leader, it’s an obligation
– Warren Bennis
… make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered
— David Heenan and Warren Bennis
Leadership Licks 