Author Profile
Warren Bennis
1925 – 2014 • American • Writer
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Collected Meditations
Showing 39 quotesAs my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.— 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
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.— Warren Bennis
The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.— Warren Bennis
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
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 required, just an elective - on the world's religions.— Warren Bennis
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.— Warren Bennis
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.— Warren Bennis
Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.— Warren Bennis
Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.— Warren Bennis
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.— Warren Bennis
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.— Warren Bennis
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.— Warren Bennis
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.— Warren Bennis
Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.— Warren Bennis