Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. -Warren Bennis Leadership
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. -Warren Bennis Learning
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 Education
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 Chance
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. -Warren Bennis Teacher
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 Religion
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. -Warren Bennis Great
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 Leadership
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. -Warren Bennis Business
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 are made rather than born. -Warren Bennis Leadership
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 Learning
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 Knowledge
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. -Warren Bennis Good
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. -Warren Bennis Finance
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 Alone
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 Leadership
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. -Warren Bennis Future
