Christopher Vokes Quotes

It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.

In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end.

To rule is an art, not a science.

I was not a presider; I was a leader.

The commander ought to lead every important movement.

A leader without followers is just a man taking a walk.

Some people are really good at the visionary role. They're like third grade teachers who tell people the vision and values over and over and over until they get it right, right, right. But they're not implementers. If they're good leaders, they gather people around them who can take the implementation role and move it forward.

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

I think, at heart, I'm a leader.

No coach wants to sit back and not have control of the team.

Headship is not rulership; it is leadership.

Through obedience learn to command.

Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.

Method is the arithmetic of success.

The incremental approach without a strategy doesn't improve the strategy.

It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.

Charisma is the result of effective leadership, not the other way around.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

Be the chief but never the lord.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.