Warren G. Bennis

• Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
• You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
• 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.
• There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
• Managers do things right, leaders do the right things.
• The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
• The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
• There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Warren G. Bennis is an American scholar, organizational consultant and author, widely regarded as a pioneer of the contemporary field of Leadership Studies.
Bennis’ impact on the fields of leadership and management theory is significant. The Wall Street Journal named him as one of the top ten most sought speakers on management in 1993; Forbes magazine referred to him as the “dean of leadership gurus” in 1996. The Financial Times referred to Bennis in 2000 as “the professor who established leadership as a respectable academic field.” In August, 2007, Business Week ranked Bennis as one of the top ten thought leaders in business.
Bennis has been ranked as one of the top 30 Leadership professionals in the international Leadership Gurus survey for 2008. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Bennis