Quote

Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

Warren G. Bennis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Warren G. Bennis
Around
Change
Management
Best
Leaders
Always
Expect
People
Grow
Leader
Grows

More quotes by Warren G. Bennis

Image
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
The manager has his eye on the bottom line the leader has his eye on the horizon.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Possess the Nobel Factor: Possess and constantly demonstrate optimism, faith, and hope. They create choices. I am reminded of an ancient Chinese proverb: That the birds of worry and care fly above your head, this you cannot change but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
The future has no shelf life
Warren G. Bennis
Image
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
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.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Learning to be an effective leader is no different than learning to be an effective person. And that's the hard part
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
No leader can create sustainable, significant change without a reservoir of good will. Without that, you always tend to compromise with failure.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren G. Bennis