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A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless … someone's got to make a wake up call.

— Warren Bennis Reinventing Leadership : Strategies to Empower the Organization (2005)

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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

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

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

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Dianna Daniels Booher (1991)

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; As cited in: Mark Fisher (1991)

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