Warren G. Bennis

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.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

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.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

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

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

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.