Quotes by Warren Bennis

About Warren Bennis:

Warren Gamaliel Bennis was an American scholar, organizational consultant and author, widely regarded as a pioneer of the contemporary field of Leadership studies. Bennis was University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration and Founding Chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California.
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

Warren Bennis

Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

Warren Bennis

Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.

Warren Bennis

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

Warren Bennis

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.

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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

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Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

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

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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.

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I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even requir...

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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

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A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

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Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

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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.

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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders a...

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Author Bio

  • NameWarren Bennis
  • DescriptionAmerican leadership expert
  • AliasesWarren Gameliel Bennis; Warren G. Bennis
  • BornMarch 8, 1925
  • DiedJuly 31, 2014
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Economist
  • AwardsBronze Star Medal; Purple Heart