Pauline Neville-Jones Quotes

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

In my opinion, the most important thing in governance is management control.

The Way of an enlightened ruler is to make it so that no minister may make a proposal and then fail to match it with actions and results.

I think effective leaders typically are able to see the future to a certain degree and then try to take actions to shape it in some way.

You have to have an idea of what you need to do, what needs to be fixed, what can be improved, what we should now imagine together which we didn't previously imagine. And having thought of it, decide to go it. And that's the government's role.

I don't think managers have the opportunity to think in terms of a long-term vision for a club.

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 C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

Being a successful CEO, where I've driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that's a critical benefit to running the state government.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

We hope that there will be better policy-making and hope to see projects implemented. We have lots of information that can be used for the implementation of projects.

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.

I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.

Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but it's the same skills.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.

I micromanage the selection of the cabinet.

[Describing her role:] It's like running a big corporation and a little country at the same time.