Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's present and when it's not. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
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 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
People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a… — 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
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything.… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Understand the "Gretzky Factor": Cultivate an instinct, a "touch", call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the… — 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
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
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 Image
Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
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 Image
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
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 Image
All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's present and when it's not. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
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 Image
