Warren Bennis Quotes

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Warren Bennis

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• I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five feet and over seven feet tall.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Management
  • Feet
  • Short

• For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Success
  • Leadership

• Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Experience
  • Want

• In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Long
  • Experience

• Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • World
  • Country
  • Change

• Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • House
  • Leadership
  • Values

• Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Management
  • Decisions

• We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Live
  • Power
  • Nature

• It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Time
  • Done
  • Past

• One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Power
  • Trust

• What we have tried to instill across the league through ownership and management is that we stand for inclusiveness and to judge somebody on the merits.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Judge
  • Management
  • Stand

• The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Always
  • Management
  • Beliefs

• The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Power
  • Small

• In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Political
  • Leadership
  • Presidential

• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Life
  • Business
  • Leadership

• I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • War
  • Peace
  • Humanity

• The smaller the function, the greater the management.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Management
  • Function

• Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Words
  • Attitude
  • Leadership

• Ray Lewis, I've grown up watching Ray Lewis. Just watching his intensity, his passion for the game, his love for the game, his work ethic. Everything in a linebacker that you want to be is in Ray Lewis, from leadership qualities, all that.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Leadership

• The federal government needs a strategic approach that includes strong leadership and the ability to manage weather related risks. The challenge of developing such an approach is complex: It must not only encompass all levels of government but must also be developed in a bipartisan manner.

  

  Matt Cartwright
  • Strong
  • Challenge
  • Leadership

• Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

  

  James Allen
  • Beautiful

• I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.

  

  Jonathan Winters
  • Funny
  • Religious
  • Dirty

• I feel like God has blessed me so much already, and he keeps continuing to bless me.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • God
  • Me
  • Feel

• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Leadership
  • Management