Dan Schulman Quotes

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

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I’ve worked as a leader for many years and I’ve always trained myself to be prepared for the worst.

Leaders create a sense of urgency. And along with that you have to create a sense of hope and a direction.

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.

When you're a leader at any level of any scale, leaders are defined at times of crisis.

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.

Like most entrepreneurs, getting motivated to work has never been a problem for me; focus comes through delegating tasks to the best people you can find.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

Leaders tend to focus on 'what to do,' but the real issue is more often 'how to do it.'

When I first became a head coach, even back in Minnesota, I'm going to go with the known and leave the unknown alone.

Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you.

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

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

The basic skills of leaders are always the same: be driven by a deeper purpose, be a human being, have a passion for what you do, and it's also about hard work and ethics.

Ambition is important for any manager or coach, owner or director.