Warren G. Bennis Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

  Becoming, Management, Integrated

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• It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

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  Leadership, Skills, Followers

  Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”

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• Every one of the geezers who continues to play a leadership role has one quality of overriding importance: neotony. The dictionary definition is that neotony, a zoological term, involves "the retention of youthful qualities throughout old age." It is more than merely retaining a youthful appearance, although that is often part of it. Neotony is the retention of all those wonderful qualities that we associate with youth: curiosity, playfulness, eagerness, fearlessness, warmth, energy.

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  Play, Curiosity, Age

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

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  Leadership, Future Leaders, Born Leaders

  Warren Bennis, Steven B. Sample, Rob Asghar (2015). “The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience and Success”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

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

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  Trust, Service Culture, Organization

  Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”

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• Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.

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  Skills, People, Mentoring

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• Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.

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  Dream, Successful, Thinking

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.

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  People, Profound, Leader

  Warren G. Bennis (1993). “An Invented Life: Reflections on Leadership and Change”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

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  Inspirational, Encouragement, Leader

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.210, John Wiley & Sons

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• Leading with character gives the wise leader clear-cut advantages. They are easier to trust and follow; they honor commitments and promises; their words and behavior match; they are always engaged in and by the world; they are open to "reflective backtalk": they can speak with conviction because they believe in what they are saying...and everyone else knows that. They are comfortable in their own skin. They feel at ease in the spotlight and they enjoy it there. They tend to be more receptive to opportunity and risk.

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  Wise, Believe, Character

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• The failure to find the right niche for people - or to let them find their own perfect niches - is a major reason that so many workplaces are mediocre, even toxic, in spite of the presence of talent. Leaders of great groups give them whatever they need and free them from everything else.

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  Giving, Perfect, People

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• Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

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  Inspirational, Believe, Accomplishment

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.209, Basic Books

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• The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally,
  and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures

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  Leadership, Ideas, Want

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.204, John Wiley & Sons

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• Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

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  Team, Organization, Support

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.

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  Leadership, Wise, Power

  Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2012). “Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.

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  Giving Up, Leader, Ego

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• 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.

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  Knowledge, Mean, Understanding

  "Why Leaders Can't Lead: The Unconscious Conspiracy Continues". Book by Warren G. Bennis, 1976.

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• In the face of ambiguity, uncertainty, and conflicting demands, often under great time pressure, leaders must make decisions and take effective actions to assure the survival and success of their organizations. This is how leaders add value to their organizations. They lead them to success by exercising good judgment, by making smart calls when especially difficult and complicated decisions simply must be made, and then ensuring that they are well executed.

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  Smart, Exercise, Organization

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.

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  Life, Feedback

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• Encourage dissent: Leaders should have associates who have contrary views, who are devil's advocates, "variance sensors" who can tell them the difference between what is expected and what is really happening, between what they want to hear and what they need to hear. There are too many naked emperors running around today.

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  Running, Views, Should Have

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• We must move from ... the primacy of technology toward considerations of social justice and equity, from the dictates of organizational convenience toward the aspirations ofself realization and learning, from authoritarianism and dogmatism toward more participation, from uniformity and centralization toward diversity and pluralism, from the concept of work as hard and unavoidable, from life as nasty, brutish, and short toward work as purpose and self~fulfillment, a recognition of leisure as a valid activity in itself.

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  Moving, Technology, Justice

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• The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Boss

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.210, John Wiley & Sons

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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.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Managing People Is Like Herding Cats". Book by Warren G. Bennis, January 1997.

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• Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.

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  Commitment, Leader, Knowledge And Wisdom

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The manager administers; the leader innovates.

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  Inspirational, Leader, Leadership Vs Management

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.209, John Wiley & Sons

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