Warren Bennis
American scholar and author on leadership, 1925-2014
18 quotes.
Quotes by Warren Bennis
- Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.
- Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
- Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
- Great groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.
- In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.
- It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
- Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
- Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
- Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.
- Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right thing.
- Silence — not dissent — is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept.
- Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
- The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
- The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born — that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
- The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.
- Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
- We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need.