A Collection of Quotes from Warren G. Bennis

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A Collection of Quotes

from

Warren G. Bennis

Warren Gamaliel Bennis was an American scholar,

organizational consultant and author, widely

regarded as a pioneer of the contemporary field of

Leadership studies.

Born: March 8, 1925, New York City, NY

Died: July 31, 2014, Los Angeles, CA

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

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“Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.” - Warren G. Bennis


“Managers do things right. Leaders do the right thing.” - Warren G. Bennis


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


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


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


“In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” - Warren G. Bennis


“If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.” - Warren G. Bennis


“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


“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


“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


“In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.” - Warren G. Bennis


“Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept.” - Warren G. Bennis


“Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.” - 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


“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


“Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.” - Warren G. Bennis


“Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.” - Warren G. Bennis


“Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.” - Warren G. Bennis


“More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.” - Warren G. Bennis


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A Collection of Quotes from Warren G. Bennis