WARREN BENNIS

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

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

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

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

The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.

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

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

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

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

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.

As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.

The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

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

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.