Warren Bennis Quotes

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

The manager administers; the leader innovates.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

To be a true leader, I needed to better understand my unique strengths and how to apply them across the company as we grew.

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.

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

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

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

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

The transformation will come from leadership.

Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.

Different times need different types of leadership.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

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

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.