Warren G. Bennis Quotes - Page 7

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• Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.

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  Teacher, Excellence, Mediocrity

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.142, John Wiley & Sons

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

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  Reality, People, Vision

  Warren G. Bennis (1999). “Old Dogs, New Tricks”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

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  Balance, Important, Groups

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. February 28, 2011.

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• First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.

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  Leader, Firsts, Judgment

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support

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  Leadership, Skills, People

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• Judgment without character is expediency... or worse.

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  Character, Judgment, Expediency

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"

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  Change, Giving, Advice

  "Leadership: Sad Facts and Silver Linings" by Thomas J. Peters, hbr.org. December 2001.

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• Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

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  Hero, Reality, Problem

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.198, Basic Books

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• The capacity for "uncontaminated wonder," ultimately, is what distinguishes the successful from the ordinary, the happily engaged players of whatever era from the chronically disappointed and malcontent. Therein lies a lesson for geeks, geezers, and the sea of people who fall in between.

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  Lying, Fall, Successful

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Frank Gehry designs buildings that make other architects half his age (he's 78) gasp with envy. Neotony is what makes him lace up his skates and whirl around the ice rink, while visionary buildings come to life and dance in his head.

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  Ice, Envy, Design

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Neotony is a metaphor for the quality of life - the gift - that keeps the fortunate of whatever age focused on all the marvelous undiscovered things to come.

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  Age, Quality, Metaphor

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of work and human organisations

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  Business, Passion, Understanding

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• This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others' judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Teaching, Keys, Judgment

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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