Leadership is the capacity to ...

Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality.
Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality.
 Warren G. Bennis

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
From warriors ravens grew red And with their leader a host attacked.
 Taliesin
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

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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.
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If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
 Warren G. Bennis
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
 Warren G. Bennis
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
 Warren G. Bennis
We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven't devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.
 Warren G. Bennis