All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless ... someone's got to make… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
One of the qualities that all the leaders have is a voracious appetite to learn whatever they do not as yet know… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
No leader can create sustainable, significant change without a reservoir of good will. Without that, you always tend to compromise with failure. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Without a terrific leader, you're not going to have a Great Group. But it is also true that you're not going to… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others' judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Great groups give the lie to the remarkably persistent but incorrect notion that successful organizations are the lengthened shadow of a great… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Understand the "Pygmalion Effect": Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Leadership (according to John Sculley) revolves around vision, ideas, direction, and has more to do with inspiring people as to direction and… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
In the face of ambiguity, uncertainty, and conflicting demands, often under great time pressure, leaders must make decisions and take effective actions… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Leading with character gives the wise leader clear-cut advantages. They are easier to trust and follow; they honor commitments and promises; their… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
The failure to find the right niche for people - or to let them find their own perfect niches - is a… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Learning to be an effective leader is no different than learning to be an effective person. And that's the hard part — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic,… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share
Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share
Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share
Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches... facilitate learning. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share
Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share
If great teams don't have an "enemy," they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, "you can't have… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share
All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share
Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's present and when it's not. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share
A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share
The failure to find the right niche for people - or to let them find their own perfect niches - is a major reason… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share
Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share
