“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

Warren Bennis, in Reinventing Leadership : Strategies to Empower the Organization (2005), by Warren G. Bennis and Robert Townsend, p. 91
2000s

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