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...
trust service-culture organization
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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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.
leadership organization wake-up
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.
creativity organization ideas
Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.
leadership heart organization
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.
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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.
doubt faith-and-doubt
Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.
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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.
march people talks
Cicero talks, and people marvel; Ceasar talks and people march
dog business future
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.
top-management leader decision
Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.
hero reality problem
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
change giving advice
If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"
leadership skills people
People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support