Peter Shilton Quotes

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

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.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

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

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

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

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.

It's an interesting juxtaposition, being student body president and leading others and learning how to effectively help people on the team in a way that's not as direct.

But the art of management has not changed. The art of it is still 80 to 90 per cent man-management. It is just a matter of getting the best out of what you have got.

One of the important things as a captain or coach is knowing what's going on around you, and knowing the right thing to say at the right time.

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

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

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

I'm not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player's ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence... I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

I'm not a great boss because I don't like to tell other people what to do.

Good leaders make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

In a team, you need players who are technically good and can perform under pressure.