Warren Bennis Quotes

Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly.

If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.

It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

I'm not going to sit here and bash the manager, we have to regroup.

To be a great leader, one unfortunately needs a war.

I've learned so much whether it was, I played a lot of team sports, so being part of a team, learning how to be a leader on different teams, and how to deal with the ebb and flow of different games.

When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.

Good teams have more fun. Bad teams have more characters.

Even back in elementary school, I was a leader, but a leader who didn't know how to channel my leadership skills in a constructive way. When I was younger, it probably came out as being more of a bossy little kid.

Over time, many CEOs realize that being able to quickly and effectively confront conflict in their company is a leadership opportunity because people's respect often rises and falls on whether their leader deals with conflict head on or avoids dealing with it.

Students who learn to collaborate and negotiate - on Capitol Hill, in the board room, in everyday life - will outperform peers who have higher test scores.

In great teams conflict becomes productive.

Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

We have to see conflict as thinking and then get really good at it.

I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school.

I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

I haven't had vast amounts of ministerial experience - in fact, none at all. But I do have a lot of experience of people.

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

I've played sports pretty much my whole life, and that teaches you how to work with anyone, whether you like that person or you don't, and whether you get along with them or you don't. The circumstances don't matter. Team work is part of life.