Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Warren G. Bennis
Best
Expect
Always
Effects
People
Grow
Leader
Grows
Understand
Pygmalion
Around
Leaders
Change
Effect

More quotes by Warren G. Bennis

Image
If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, How clear is the metaphor?
Warren G. Bennis
Image
In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
The manager does things right the leader does the right thing.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
The manager asks how and when the leader asks what and why.
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
Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
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
Image
Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them.
Warren G. Bennis