Warren G. Bennis Quotes
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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.
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The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause.
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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.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Keep reminding people of what's important and that their fates are correlated.
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work... I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn't make you a star. Emotional intelligence can.
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What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense.
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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.
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The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.
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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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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.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
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Judgment without character is expediency... or worse.
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Neotony is a metaphor for the quality of life - the gift - that keeps the fortunate of whatever age focused on all the marvelous undiscovered things to come.
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I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
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Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.
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People vary enormously in how they learn. Some learn through their eyes - by reading but also by responding to all kinds of visual information. Others learn mostly through their ears or touch or other senses.
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I'd always rather err on the side of openness. But there's a difference between optimum and maximum openness, and fixing that boundary is a judgment call. The art of leadership is knowing how much information you're going to pass on - to keep people motivated and to be as honest, as upfront, as you can. But, boy, there really are limits to that.
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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.
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Listening to the inner voice - trusting the inner voice - is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.
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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.
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A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of work and human organisations
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Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.
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