Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
Warren G. Bennis

Teacher, Found, Mediocrity

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren G. Bennis

Leadership, Reality, Vision

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
Warren G. Bennis

Future, Two, Keep

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
Warren G. Bennis

Leaders, Managers

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

Yourself, Simple, Leader

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren G. Bennis

Leadership, Music, Dance

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
Warren G. Bennis

Cannot, Themselves, Ideas

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

Good, Heart, Leaders

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

Life, Learning, Person

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

Leader, Status, Manager

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
Warren G. Bennis

Two, Dance, Creative

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

Eyes, Keep, Leaders

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

Reality, Place, Vision

Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
Warren G. Bennis

Truth, Someone, Tell

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
Warren G. Bennis

Work, Trust, Makes

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

Leadership, True, Made

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
Warren G. Bennis

Important, Find, Others

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

Great, Accomplish, Talented

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

Change, Best, Around

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
Warren G. Bennis

Why, Leader, Manager

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
Warren G. Bennis

Leader, View, Manager

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

Leader, Line, Eye

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
Warren G. Bennis

Between, Meaning, Difference

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
Warren G. Bennis

Future, Rather, Walk

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Type: Psychologist

Born: 1925

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