To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.
Warren G. BennisUnderstand the "Pygmalion Effect": Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
Warren G. BennisNo leader can create sustainable, significant change without a reservoir of good will. Without that, you always tend to compromise with failure.
Warren G. BennisUnderstand stakeholder symmetry: Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders.
Warren G. BennisThe ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
Warren G. BennisThe organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause.
Warren G. Bennis