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 vision hospitality
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
leadership world hospitality
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
leadership jobs reality
The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.
loyalty jobs psychics
What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense.
moving demand development
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
cutting men president
I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
opposites choices despair
The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.
fighting needs groups
Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.
leader coaching certain
Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches... facilitate learning.
life feedback
Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.
leadership dream believe
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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.
inspirational encouragement leader
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.