Warren Bennis Quotes

Leadership is what you need to learn next

The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders.

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

To be an excellent leader, you have to be a superb follower.

To add growth, lead followers - to multiply, lead leaders.

You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.

Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.

Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

Any fool can buy talent; only real leaders develop it.

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

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. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.

Though there are lessons that can be learned about becoming a great leader, most exist inherently in the bellies of those who lead.

I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they're born. Every leader I know who's been highly effective has worked hard at it, and they've been students of it. The more you're a student of leadership, the more you figure out what works for you and the more effective you're going to be.

Take your time to really learn and study the fundamentals of your pursuit, so that one day, your fully developed skill set will allow you to grow into a leader.

Nobody is a born captain. He learns with time.

I wouldn't be a CEO today if I didn't do different things to build capabilities and build experiences because to come a leader, you need varied experiences.

That's what the great teams do. That's where, if you're a good shooter, become a great one. If you're a good ballhandler, become a great one.

Any captain will take some time to settle down. Nobody is an outstanding leader straightaway.

Our mission is skill development. There can be no development with a satiated system.

Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't demand it.

Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.