Sean McDermott Quotes

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

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Leaders create a sense of urgency. And along with that you have to create a sense of hope and a direction.

I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.

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

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.

Leadership means making people feel good.

If you are going to lead people, you have to know where they are going.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

Good managers ensure good outcomes, but great leaders can deliver a vision by getting people to work together.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

To become a good coach, it is important to be equipped with tactics and strategy. But first of all, you need to have strong leadership.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.