Gareth Barry Quotes

I've got a really great team around me. They're the ones that are in the restaurants on a day to day basis. Anyone that's good can't be stifled in any way. I don't baby people.

For me, going home at 5:30 is as much about my own choices, but also giving my team those choices, too.

People leave their manager; they don't leave companies.

You have to empower your employees to make their own choices and trust that they will make the right choices.

I get the team set up good and then I'll let them do their thing. At the end of the day, if you put the time and effort into interviewing and finding the right people for a job, you've got to let them do that job.

As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.

The best way to find a balance between doing your best and showing that you're ready for more is by developing other people. As tempting as it is to hoard knowledge, don't. Instead, make certain that there are others who know how to do important aspects of your job.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment.

It turns out I'm not very good at working with a traditional boss.

Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

I work here at the Raiders. My position is basically what I make it.

I'd never managed anyone before, so I don't have a lot of experience. But I'm lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.

The best way to supervise your men is from their reports that they make out.

I'm really looking forward to working under Mourinho.

I'm letting my coaches take the reins more. Letting them make the decisions on what's going to be a hard practice, what's not going to be a hard practice and also this weight cutting thing. It's the best decision I've made in my entire career.

I'll never forget Cricket Australia telling me I was too soft and I'd been too soft with the team... I kind of didn't know what they wanted.

I'm not a great boss because I don't like to tell other people what to do.

Knowing how to tactfully criticize someone's work is a mentor's job.

If you have excellent people, then you have to give them the power.

I was a coach at Spurs for 15 years. I did want to go into management but what was important to me was doing a very good job in whatever capacity I was employed.

No two managers are the same and I believe how players are man-managed on a daily basis has a huge influence on their performance on the field.

I'm the type of manager who doesn't really like the word 'manage.' Nor do I really like the word 'boss.' I like to look at myself as more as a leader.