Warren Bennis Best Quotes

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line. — Warren Bennis

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. — Warren Bennis

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. — Warren Bennis

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality. — Warren Bennis

Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow. — Warren Bennis

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers. — Warren G. Bennis

Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback. — Warren G. Bennis

Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option. — Warren Bennis

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's present and when it's not. — Warren G. Bennis

The manager administers; the leader innovates. — Warren G. Bennis

The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices. — Warren G. Bennis

What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense. — Warren G. Bennis

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. — Warren G. Bennis

To be authentic is literally to be your own author, to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them. — Warren G. Bennis

I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. — Warren G. Bennis

People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support — Warren G. Bennis

Don't over-react to the trouble makers. — Warren G. Bennis

Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept. — Warren G. Bennis

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge. — Warren G. Bennis

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. — Warren Bennis

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself. — Warren G. Bennis

In order to serve its purpose, a vision has to be a shared vision. — Warren G. Bennis

Listening to the inner voice - trusting the inner voice - is one of the most important lessons of leadership. — Warren G. Bennis

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

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership. — Warren G. Bennis

Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream. — Warren G. Bennis

The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person. — Warren G. Bennis

As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world. — Warren Bennis

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. — Warren Bennis

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film. — Warren Bennis

Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to. — Warren G. Bennis

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person. — Warren G. Bennis

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders. — Warren G. Bennis

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. — Warren Bennis

Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table. — Warren G. Bennis

Leadership is the capacity to turn vision into reality. — Warren Bennis