Warren Bennis

From 1971 to 1997, Bennis was President of the University of Cincinnati. He also served on the faculty of the MIT Sloan School Of Management , Boston University , and University At Buffalo .

He has been an Adviser to four Presidents of the United States , including both John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan . He is the founder of the University of Southern California's Leadership Institute.

He has written 27 books on the topic of leadership, consulted and lectured all over the world.

The Financial Times recently named his book "Leaders" as one of the top 50 business books of all time. His book of essays "An Invented Life: Reflections on Leadership and Change" was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Almost two million copies of Bennis' books are in print.

QUOTES

''Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing.-"On Becoming a leader"

''The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.''

''The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -- that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.''

(In future problems will be solved by) ''task forces composed of relative strangers who represent a set of diverse professional skills''

"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens, people feel centered, and that gives their work meaning." -Warren Bennis'

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