Jaap Stam Quotes

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

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.

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.

Leadership is influence.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

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

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.

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.

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

Leadership—not salesmanship

Management is different from leadership..

Some people are really good at the visionary role. They're like third grade teachers who tell people the vision and values over and over and over until they get it right, right, right. But they're not implementers. If they're good leaders, they gather people around them who can take the implementation role and move it forward.

When you are the manager, you want to win.

I can lead my team.

As a leader, your job is to share your vision with your followers and either warn them of danger or highlight opportunities coming in the future.

Good managers ensure good outcomes, but great leaders can deliver a vision by getting people to work together.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

A manager has to have all different sides covered.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

Managers are driving the ship, so to speak, without actually being on the pitch, so every manager I've worked under here definitely deserves credit.

Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help your team improve.

I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.