List of Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Find The Appropriate Balance Of Competing Claims By Various Groups Of Stakeholders. All Claims Deserve Consideration But Some Claims Are More Important Than Others.

See The Long View: By All Means "plant The Corn, Milk The Cows, And Feed The Horses" But Always Keep The Eventual "harvest" In Mind.

Almost Without Exception, Members Of Great Groups See Themselves As Winning Underdogs, As A Feisty David Hurling Fresh Ideas At A Big, Backward-looking Goliath. They Always Have An "enemy."

Great Groups Need To Know That The Person At The Top Will Fight Like A Tiger For Them.

Leaders Should Always Expect The Very Best Of Those Around Them. They Know That People Can Change And Grow.

Excellence Is A Better Teacher Than Mediocrity.

What Job Is Worth The Enormous Psychic Cost Of Following A Leader Who Values Loyalty In The Narrowest Sense.

I Wanted The Influence. In The End I Wasn't Very Good At Being A President. I Looked Out Of The Window And Thought That The Man Cutting The Lawn Actually Seemed To Have More Control Over What He Was Doing.

The Opposite Of Hope Is Despair, And When We Despair, It Is Because We Feel There Are No Choices.

A Passion For Continual Learning, A Refined, Discerning Ear For The Moral And Ethical Consequences Of Their Actions, And An Understanding Of The Purposes Of Work And Human Organisations

The Organizations Of The Future Will Increasingly Depend On The Creativity Of Their Members To Survive. Great Groups Offer A New Model In Which The Leader Is An Equal Among Titans. In A Truly Creative Collaboration, Work Is Pleasure, And The Only Rules And Procedures Are Those That Advance The Common Cause.

Our Tendency To Create Heroes Rarely Jibes With The Reality That Most Nontrivial Problems Require Collective Solutions.