Blanche Wiesen Cook Quotes

I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.

Followship is just as important as leadership. It's very important that you'll know if you're a great leader because you will have awesome followship. And the people behind you will take that burden of responsibility.

You go in thinking you have to do this all by yourself, and what I learned was no, when you hire great people, they do so much for you.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

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.

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.

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 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.

Leadership and partnership go together.

We must lead, but we must listen.

Working with someone who's got your best interest at heart can make all the difference.

Just because you're the coach, you don't automatically have the authority. You have to work the people. You have to gain the trust of the people.

Whenever there is somebody at Epic who is capable of doing something better than me, I let them at it.

I can only be inspired if I'm working with people that I really respect.

Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible.

Real power comes by empowering others.

Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It's about mastering the art of letting go.

The ultimate use of power is to empower others.

My husband is the mayor. He has a lot of advisors. He has many advisors. Trust me. I'm not always the last one to state my opinion to him. And he does not always take my opinion. I think it's totally fair for any - in any couple, we just assume that people are speaking to their spouse. This is no different. In this day and age, I think we're going to see more couples like us. You know, couples who work together. I'm a volunteer, but I take this work very seriously and I want to help my husband in any way I can.

Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.

I think at some point you have to empower others and really allow everyone else to do what they're hired to do and what they're brought onto the team to do.

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.

The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.

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