Jim Evans Quotes

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

Having the ability to relate to people is such an important part of management and leadership.

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up.

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

I don't put together cars, I put together people.

Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

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

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

I have a talent for dealing with difficult men.

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly tough-minded about standards of performance, but you also have to be incredibly tenderhearted with the people you're working with.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

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.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

Part of your job as President is not only to make the tough calls, but to get people to agree with you.

A big part of the job of being a showrunner is, in my way of thinking, being a good communicator because there's really no other way to have hope for getting what you want, at the end of the day.

Just because you have opposition doesn't make you a great leader.

I have an MBA, but my Ph.D. is in people. Everything I do is about relationships.

As a manager, I have to keep calm.

One of my strengths is connecting with the players.

Knowing who I am as a player and working on my deficiencies, communication is something I try to pride myself on.