Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ… — 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
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
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
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
Every one of the geezers who continues to play a leadership role has one quality of overriding importance: neotony. The dictionary definition… — 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
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
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
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
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
I'd always rather err on the side of openness. But there's a difference between optimum and maximum openness, and fixing that boundary… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is… — 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
