Warren G. Bennis

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.       

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself.  It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.

Managers are people who do things right, and leaders are people who do the right things.

Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.