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Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right thing. Both roles are crucial, and they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing the wrong things well.

— Warren Bennis Bennis Warren and Burt Nanus (1985)

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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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