The Little Book of Big Management Wisdom

QUOTATION 33

WARREN BENNIS ON THE MAKING OF A LEADER (TOP TEN ENTRY)

Use this to remind you that with practice you can become a great leader.

Warren Bennis (1925–2014) was an American academic, management consultant and an influential writer on the subject of leadership. One of the tasks he set himself was to demystify the concept of leadership. He firmly believed that:

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born … The myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense … Leaders are made rather than born.

Warren Bennis

In his seminal book with Burt Nanus, Leaders: Strategies For Taking Charge, he provides pen portraits of 40 successful leaders, many of whom clearly lacked ...