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Leaders encourage reflective backtalk. Norbert Wiener told me, “I never know what I say until I hear the response.” Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

— Warren Bennis Warren G. Bennis (2009)

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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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