Quote

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

Warren G. Bennis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Warren G. Bennis
Management
Truth
Leaders
Importance
Leader
Lives
Inspirational
Unfailingly
Tell
Fearlessly
Someone

More quotes by Warren G. Bennis

Image
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
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 G. Bennis
Image
Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work... I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn't make you a star. Emotional intelligence can.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
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
Image
Don't over-react to the trouble makers.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
The manager administers the leader innovates.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
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
Image
All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
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.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Without character, there is no credibility and without credibility, there is no trust.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
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.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
Warren G. Bennis