Daniel Farke Quotes

The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?

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.

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

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

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

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.

One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity.

I believe in MWA - management by walking around - so I spend as much time as possible traveling and visiting franchise partners. You only learn by walking around and meeting people.

The biggest thing as a head coach, you want to make sure you exhaust every option.

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

There's a conventional wisdom that says that strategic thinking is much more important than relationship building, which doesn't seem to be nearly as highly valued as it should be, based on what some of the leaders that I've spoken with have said to me.

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

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

Leaders need to be thinking constantly about what they're doing to create a basic sense of security and stability throughout an organization.

The most important thing a leader can do is set the vision and don't stray. We said, 'We are a research foundation. Our mission is to accelerate cures.'

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

If there are only three guys at the top of the organization handling things, it's the definition of a bankrupt company. In creating leaders without titles, we are going to have organizations with people at the helm putting forth their best.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

I believe that, by directing, it makes me a better executive as well.

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

To be a good leader, you have to be a good communicator. As a leader, you have to communicate your intent every chance you get, and if you fail to do that, you will pay the consequences.