Warren Bennis

“Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.”

“Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.”

“The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.”

“One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.”

“Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.”

“I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.”

“You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.”

“Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.”

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

“As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.”

“The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.”

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

“Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.”

“Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.”

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

“The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.”

“Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.”

“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.”

“Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.”

“People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.”