Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.
Warren G. Bennis
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Warren G. Bennis
Binds
Glue
Followers
Leaders
Emotional
Trust
Leader
Together
More quotes by Warren G. Bennis
Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
Warren G. Bennis
The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.
Warren G. Bennis
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
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
Warren G. Bennis
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
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
Warren G. Bennis
Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.
Warren G. Bennis
The leader...is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
Warren G. Bennis
Frank Gehry designs buildings that make other architects half his age (he's 78) gasp with envy. Neotony is what makes him lace up his skates and whirl around the ice rink, while visionary buildings come to life and dance in his head.
Warren G. Bennis
All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking.
Warren G. Bennis
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
Warren G. Bennis
Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
Warren G. Bennis
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
Warren G. Bennis
Understand the Pygmalion Effect: Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
Warren G. Bennis
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.
Warren G. Bennis
Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.
Warren G. Bennis
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
Warren G. Bennis
Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.
Warren G. Bennis
Understand the Gretzky Factor: Cultivate an instinct, a touch, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the puck is now and where it will be soon.
Warren G. Bennis
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
Warren G. Bennis