Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to…

Warren G. Bennis
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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. ✨ Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2012). Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge, p.16, Harper Collins
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To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them. ✨ Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2 … ▶

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