Quotes by Warren Bennis

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“The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.”

— Warren Bennis

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

— Warren Bennis

“We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy coll...”

— Warren Bennis

“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. Th...”

— Warren Bennis

“Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.”

— Warren Bennis

“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 Bennis

“Leaders encourage reflective backtalk. Norbert Wiener told me, I never know what I say until I hear the response. Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly a...”

— Warren Bennis