Sublime

1. Greatness starts with superb people.

Warren Bennis Santa Monica, California November 1996

Every Great Group has a strong leader.

Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

As Carville liked to say, quoting Disraeli, “A good leader knows himself and the times.”

2. Great Groups and great leaders create each other.

Warren Bennis said, the process of developing extraordinary leadership is the same process as becoming an extraordinary person. To fulfill the Leadership Imperative, we need to rethink how we develop leaders. Our efforts need to be long-term and systemic (not piecemeal and episodic), individual and collective, and integrative of the inner and outer

This function is never more vital than when an elite group is doing something unprecedented and thus by its very nature is threatening to people who are more comfortable with what has been than with what might be.