Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation. — 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
“Neoteny is more than retaining a youthful appearance, although that is often part of it. Neoteny is the retention of all those… — 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
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
The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how… — 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
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
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the… — 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
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the… — 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
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it;… — 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
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention… — 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
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
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
Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it;… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense. — 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
