Warren G. Bennis Quotes About Leadership

Quotes about: Leadership

• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Executive's Portfolio of Model Speeches for All Occasions". Book by Dianna Daniels Booher, 1991.

• Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Business, Failure

  "Wisdom, Honor & Hope: The Inner Path to True Greatness". Book by Cecil O. Kemp, Jr., May 1, 2000.

• Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Honesty, Simple

• I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Vision, Labels

• Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Followers, Telling The Truth

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.392, John Wiley & Sons

• Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Heart, Organization

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

• The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Managing People Is Like Herding Cats". Book by Warren G. Bennis, January 1997.

• Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Believe, Unique

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.210, Basic Books

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

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

• The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Born Leaders

  Warren Bennis, Steven B. Sample, Rob Asghar (2015). “The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience and Success”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

• Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Leadership, People

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.198, John Wiley & Sons

• Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Eye, Horizon

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

• The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally,
  and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Ideas, Want

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.204, John Wiley & Sons

• A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Organization, Future Leaders

  "Reinventing Leadership: Strategies to Empower the Organization". Book by Warren G. Bennis and Robert Townsend, December 13, 2005.

• Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Opportunity, Conflict

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Why Leaders Can't Lead: The Unconscious Conspiracy Continues”, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

• The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Being A Leader, Managers

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader”, Basic Books (AZ)

• Without a terrific leader, you're not going to have a Great Group. But it is also true that you're not going to have a great leader without a Great Group.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Groups, Great Leader

• Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Music, Dance

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

• The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Eye, Views

• To become a leader, then, you must become
  yourself, become the maker of your own life

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Leader, Makers

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.214, John Wiley & Sons

• Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Wise, Power

  Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2012). “Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge”, p.16, Harper Collins

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

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Weather, Mountain

• That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Opposites, Future Leaders

  Warren Bennis, Steven B. Sample, Rob Asghar (2015). “The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience and Success”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

• I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there's any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it's surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that's constant is change.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Running, Thinking

• The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Motivational, Leadership, Iron

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

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