Anne Sweeney Quotes

A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.

I've got a really great team around me. They're the ones that are in the restaurants on a day to day basis. Anyone that's good can't be stifled in any way. I don't baby people.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

The most important thing I've done at work has been to surround myself with amazing people who I trust and empower fully to do stuff better than I could.

I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.

I don't think I am that hands-on. I'm much more of a believer in finding a great team of people and trusting them to follow their instincts. They work better when they feel they have freedom and they are trusted.

Leadership and partnership go together.

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.

Basically, a manager's job is to make other people more productive. What's one really good way to do that? Do the work that is getting in their way. Which means find out what kind of important work your developers dislike the most, and do it for them.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself.

In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.