Warren G. Bennis Reality Quotations

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

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.