Warren Bennis Quotes

To be effective, leaders must have the qualities and attitudes essential to work in a group setting.

Great groups give the lie to the remarkably persistent but incorrect notion that successful organizations are the lengthened shadow of a great woman or man. However, each great group has a strong leader. In fact, great groups and great leaders create each other.

You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got yourself a team.

Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.

The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.

This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together. We should have learnt from the great football teams. The players may not like each other. They have egos, they have their own ambitions, they have different personalities, but they are still bloody good teams.

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

I found the bench to be the greatest ally when I had to make individuals comply with what was best for the team

The leader is one who can organize the experience of the group ... and thus get the full power of the group. The leader makes the team. This is pre-eminently the leadership quality - the ability to organize all the forces there are in an enterprise and make them serve a common purpose.

It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Cause I was such a novice and thank God that Sarah was as seasoned as she was because she was really a great leader in that regard in the sense that she would communicate really well with the crew.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

No team works out teamwork.

If you do have a team where every rider has a huge list of results, that means everybody wants to do the race for themselves. The strongest team in the Tour is not the strongest team on paper.

I do not believe it is all about the leader. I think it's about the team, too. So we have one mission; we have one team; we are working to victory.

Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.

I'm used to the feeling of playing in a team with high individual quality.

I've been on some really good teams.

The coach will decide the best for the team, but in practice, I will try to make an effort for the good of the group above all.

It's not always the best roster that wins, it's the best team, and sometimes that maybe doesn't jell all that well.

Popovich is always talking about team.