Laura Lang Quotes

In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.

In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions.

I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

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

A CEO needs to build their own team.

I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.

You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do is teach management to somebody who is not a manager, the way you cannot teach surgery to somebody whose not a surgeon.

I learned a lot from Jack Welch about how to run a business.

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.

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

I know how to make decisions, and I know how to lead.

I’ve worked as a leader for many years and I’ve always trained myself to be prepared for the worst.

A businessman can be as military as any politician.

Every manager can improve.

Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help your team improve.

Leadership is about tough choices.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.

I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I'm good at this, so I'm going to be good at that - and it's not that way at all.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'