Warren bennis

Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

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

I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was...

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

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.