Quotes of Warren Bennis - somelinesforyou

“ Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. ”

- Warren Bennis

“ Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. ”

- Warren Bennis

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

- Warren Bennis

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

- Warren Bennis

“ The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. ”

- Warren Bennis

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

- Warren Bennis

“ The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. ”

- Warren 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 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 Bennis

“ Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth. ”

- Warren Bennis

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

- Warren Bennis

“ Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing. ”

- Warren Bennis

“ Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. ”

- Warren Bennis

“ The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. ”

- Warren Bennis

“ The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. ”

- Warren Bennis

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

- Warren Bennis

“ Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. ”

- Warren Bennis

“ To be authentic is literally to be your own author, to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them. ”

- Warren Bennis

“ Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. ”

- Warren Bennis

“ Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. ”

- Warren Bennis

“ The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. ”

- Warren Bennis

“ "Know thyself" was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you cannot succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word… ”

- Warren Bennis

“ Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing. ”

- Warren Bennis

“ The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. ”

- Warren Bennis

“ The manager has his eye always on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. ”

- Warren Bennis

“ The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. ”

- Warren Bennis

“ Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. ”

- Warren Bennis

“ The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. ”

- Warren Bennis

“ The manager has his eye always on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. ”

- Warren Bennis

“ The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. ”

- Warren Bennis
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