Warren Bennis Quotes

You can learn a lot about good management by working under someone who is a bad manager.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

Sometimes ruin comes for lack of judgment.

We live in a time of mediocre leadership—political and intellectual.

The fish rots from the head.

Most corporate disasters are driven not by market forces, but by CEOs messing things up.

Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.

There's no longevity in managing - and not much sense, either.

Poor leaders have a certain style and that's the only style they have.

Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership.

I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.

Rotten bosses don't get better. Any strategy that assumes they can is doomed.

Baseball is a poorly run business.

I think too much of my leadership is done the bad way.

Often, when I became a consultant to a federal agency, that precipitated its demise.

I think you live and learn each year, whether you're a head coach, coordinator, or business manager. You learn different things that work and different things that don't.

Gox is the worst-run business in the history of the world.

Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

If you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

We're a stupid industry led by stupid people.

Most organizations fail in driving change.

Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.

A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.