Warren G. Bennis
Warren G. Bennis
Warren Gamaliel Benniswas an American scholar, organizational consultant and author, widely regarded as a pioneer of the contemporary field of Leadership studies. Bennis was University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration and Founding Chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California...
cards-on-the-table tables servant-leadership
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
leadership art boys
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.
leadership dream believe
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
life feedback
Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.
success blind misled
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
successful leader problem
Successful leaders are great askers
knowledge mean understanding
We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven't devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.
leadership running thinking
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.
people profound leader
A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.
voice listening important
Listening to the inner voice - trusting the inner voice - is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
difficult knows
Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's present and when it's not.
moving technology justice
We must move from ... the primacy of technology toward considerations of social justice and equity, from the dictates of organizational convenience toward the aspirations ofself realization and learning, from authoritarianism and dogmatism toward more participation, from uniformity and centralization toward diversity and pluralism, from the concept of work as hard and unavoidable, from life as nasty, brutish, and short toward work as purpose and self~fulfillment, a recognition of leisure as a valid activity in itself.
leadership opposites future-leaders
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
leader doe managers
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.