The Financial Times referred to Bennis in 2000 as "the professor who established leadership as a respectable academic field."

"If we are to establish political leadership, we must learn a new tradition," he said.

It will be easier to establish strong leadership in the F.B.I. with an acting director than with one who is headed out the door.

Even among our own people there were killings until we established leadership and some kind of plan.

Establishing strong Iraqi leadership for security forces is a top priority for American officers.

But you can establish leadership.

These experiments would represent an American approach to partnership aimed at establishing American manufacturing and industrial leadership in technology.

VG1: Establish informed and committed leadership.

This senior-level firm develops data-based communications campaigns that establish business, technology and public policy leadership and brand building.

Central to implementing these reforms is the need to establish effective IT leadership within each agency.