Quote

First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.

Warren G. Bennis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Warren G. Bennis
First
Effective
Must
Strive
Make
Leaders
Judgment
Leader
Continuously
Making
Judgments
Better
Foremost
Firsts
Smarter

More quotes by 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
Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Charisma is the result of effective leadership, not the other way around.
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
Without a terrific leader, you're not going to have a Great Group. But it is also true that you're not going to have a great leader without a Great Group.
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
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.
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
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
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
See the long view: By all means plant the corn, milk the cows, and feed the horses but always keep the eventual harvest in mind.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
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.
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
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
Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches... facilitate learning.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
Warren G. Bennis
Image
Leaders are people who do the right thing managers are people who do things right.
Warren G. Bennis