Life, Leadership, Identity

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
~ Samuel Butler, the younger

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
~ Warren Bennis

You are not what you own.
~ Fugazi, American rock band

Fun, Leaders, Boredom

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
~ Katharine Graham, American publisher

Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who
do the right thing.
~ Warren Bennis

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
~ George Burns

Thinking, New Leader, Adventure

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices.
~ William James

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is
dreamless, soulless and visionless ... someone's got to make a wake up
call.
~ Warren Bennis

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An
inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
~ G.K. Chesterton

Enrichment, Leadership and Perfection

Play more games and read more books than you did last year.
~ Advice

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless ... someone's got to make a wake up call.
~ Warren Bennis

It is better to aim at perfection and miss, than to aim at imperfection and hit it.
~ Thomas J. Watson