Warren Bennis Quotes

The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.

The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.

A lot of what I do is running businesses rather than buying stocks. My worst decision is probably when I know I have the wrong chief executive running the business, and I keep on waiting to make the difficult decision of replacing him.

We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.

If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

I want to get my Masters in business.

Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

There's smarter people than me. But you cannot have any one guy running 18 billion-dollar businesses. It just doesn't make sense to me. I've met some extraordinary leaders in my time. They struggle with running one billion-dollar business.

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

When I was getting my education, I fell in love with the writings of Peter Drucker. He was my hero. I had a naive belief that when I became a manager, it was going to be like Peter Drucker's books. That is, I was going to be the effective executive. I was going to talk to people about their goals. I was going to help them actualize.

I think if you want to be a successful president or a manager of a team, you need to understand what the business is all about because you have to deal with the business side of the game to be able to do what you need to do.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

I learned a lot from Jack Welch about how to run a business.

Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business - it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people.

My undergraduate degree is in business, so I'm trying to get a bit of a background before I go in.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

My expertise is running businesses.

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.

I loved multi-tasking. I loved being involved in a lot of things. To me, the more complex the better, and so being a leader of a business to me was like, 'Wow, that's what I want to be.'

I think that the larger and more complex the business gets, I have to listen twice as much as I speak.