Ruchi Sanghvi Quotes

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

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.

Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business.

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

Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

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.

Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business - it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people.

Management must manage!

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

A big part of the job of being a showrunner is, in my way of thinking, being a good communicator because there's really no other way to have hope for getting what you want, at the end of the day.

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.

I've been in charge all my damn life, but executive producing is teamwork. You're involved with every aspect of the production, from casting to locations, everything.

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

When you build a team, and you have 24 or 25 players, all can be decisive; can be important.

To scale your business, you need to delegate responsibilities to others and establish a strong company culture.

I've been on a bunch of teams in my career.

As a director, you realise the bigger picture.

I used to spend my time more on process than strategy. Now, I prioritize my time around strategy, people, and process.

It's extremely instructive to realize that you cannot do everything. You need to delegate, to find experts, to consult with them. A big part of the job of directing is knowing when to take something on and when you shouldn't.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

A lot of what I do as a showrunner is anxiety control. People get nervous when they don't know what's going on, so a big part of my job is making sure everyone has all of the information all of the time.

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

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.