Warren G. Bennis Management Quotations

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

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.

The manager administers; the leader innovates.

Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.