Mike Wilson Quotes

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

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.

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

I think that the CEO is responsible for setting the vision, for articulating the mission, and for building a team of powerful evangelists that share that mission and that passion, because no one person can do anything by themselves.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

I've run a very successful business, and I think I can also run a very successful team.

As a manager, you need to have your own vision and what you want to do with the team.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

I need to build my team around my weaknesses.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

You have to be able to communicate the vision to the people in your organization so that they know where and how they should direct themselves on a day-to-day basis.

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

You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

Few people would doubt that Mark Zuckerberg would build a great product. But I, at least, would never have expected him to become so great at hiring, motivating, managing, and ultimately getting whatever it is his company needs from people.