Warren Bennis Quotes

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there.

Leadership is no longer about position - but passion. It's no longer about image but impact. This is Leadership 2.0.

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.

Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.

There is an inexorable correlation between leadership and change.

The transformation will come from leadership.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Leaders are people who ‘walk ahead,’ people genuinely committed to deep changes, in themselves and in their organizations.

Our next CEO needs to thrive in a highly dynamic environment, to be capable of accelerating what is working very well for Cisco and disrupting what needs to change.

Leadership is always about change: it's not about mobilising people to do what they've always done well to continue to do it well.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Leadership is more than just managing economic reforms. Leadership means giving broad direction, take up challenges which other people cannot do.

The ability to have influence and create change and drive the strategy of an organization is really what excites me.

To be a leader you must be able to create positive change.

Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership.

If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.

The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision.

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function