Pat Gillick Quotes

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

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.

I don't think I am that hands-on. I'm much more of a believer in finding a great team of people and trusting them to follow their instincts. They work better when they feel they have freedom and they are trusted.

An entrepreneur need not know everything but he or she should lead a team of persons who are thorough in different aspects.

I let the coach do his job.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

If the players understand and accept that their leader is steering their direction through thoughtful, careful measures, then they will pull together to give the best effort every time.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

Cause I was such a novice and thank God that Sarah was as seasoned as she was because she was really a great leader in that regard in the sense that she would communicate really well with the crew.

I don't view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I'm part of the team, but everybody else as well.

I love to be directed. They can trust me and go.

The idea of being in control for the sake of control is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing what they're doing well, you don't really need to be in control all the time.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

It's a unique situation to have, but again they say sometimes talent doesn't win. It has to be brought together right. That's the coaching's job. That's what we're doing.

The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.

One of the things I'm adamant about as a bandleader is not micromanaging. I'm an advocate for the concept of allowing everyone to be fully vested in what they're doing, so everyone contributes whatever they're inspired to contribute.

You can't build any kind of organization if you're not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.

I'm not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player's ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence... I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.

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 more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built.