"A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless β¦ someone's got to make a wake up call."
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Warren Bennis, in Reinventing Leadership : Strategies to Empower the Organization (2005), by Warren G. Bennis and Robert Townsend, p. 91
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Warren Bennis
Warren Gameliel Bennis (March 8, 1925 β July 31, 2014) was an American scholar, organizational consultant and author who is widely regarded as a pioneer of the contemporary field of leadership studies.
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