Warren G. Bennis Quotes About Vision
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Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.
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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Leadership (according to John Sculley) revolves around vision, ideas, direction, and has more to do with inspiring people as to direction and goals than with day-to-day implementation. A leader must be able to leverage more than his own capabilities. He must be capable of inspiring other people to do things without actually sitting on top of them with a checklist.
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The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple. At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, "How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?"
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I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.
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In order to serve its purpose, a vision has to be a shared vision.
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Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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The future has no shelf life
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