The manager accepts the ...

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
 Warren G. Bennis

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
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 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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.
 Warren G. Bennis
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