Warren G. Bennis Jobs Quotations

What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense.

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

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?"