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Warren Bennis
11 quotes
“Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right thing. Both roles are crucial, and they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing the wrong things well.”
Warren Bennis (1925–2014) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bennis Warren and Burt Nanus (1985) Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge. Harper and Row. p. 21
“The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.”
Warren Bennis (1925–2014) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bennis (1989, p. 45), cited in: Terrence Mech, Gerard B. McCabe (1998) Leadership and Academic Librarians. p. 56
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
Warren Bennis (1925–2014) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Peter Drucker, and Warren Bennis, as quoted by Covey, in The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), this has sometimes become misattributed to him.
Also quoted by: Stephen Covey (misattributed), Peter Drucker (pt)
“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.”
Warren Bennis (1925–2014) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Warren G. Bennis (1990) Why leaders can't lead: the unconscious conspiracy continues. p. 143
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”
Warren Bennis (1925–2014) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Warren Bennis, cited in: Dianna Daniels Booher (1991) Executive's portfolio of model speeches for all occasions. p. 34
“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.”
Warren Bennis (1925–2014) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ; As cited in: Mark Fisher (1991) The millionaire's book of quotations. p. 15
“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.”
Warren Bennis (1925–2014) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Warren Bennis (1999) Managing People Is Like Herding Cats. p. 89
“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. And the way we become leaders is by learning about leadership through life and job experiences, not with university degrees.”
Warren Bennis (1925–2014) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Warren Bennis (1999) Managing People Is Like Herding Cats. p. 163
“Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.”
Warren Bennis (1925–2014) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Warren Bennis cited in: Cecil O. Kemp, Jr. (2000) Wisdom Honor & Hope: The Inner Path to True Greatness. p. 207
“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.”
Warren Bennis (1925–2014) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Warren Bennis, in Reinventing Leadership : Strategies to Empower the Organization (2005), by Warren G. Bennis and Robert Townsend, p. 91
“Leaders encourage reflective backtalk. Norbert Wiener told me, “I never know what I say until I hear the response.” Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.”
Warren Bennis (1925–2014) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Warren G. Bennis (2009) On Becoming a Leader. p. 190