Ha-Joon Chang Quotes

Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.

I need to reach out to people who work for small to mid-sized companies, and help them identify and apply their strengths at work.

As always I am focused on training and coaching my team.

A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.

Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.

It is like when a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees. The best leaders come to the aid of their people, whose performance is down. Not come down harder on them.

A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people.

Any fool can buy talent; only real leaders develop it.

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.

If you can run one company, you can run another. Running companies are about inspiring and driving the best out of people.

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

A leader is a coach, not a judge.

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.

In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce.

The secret of directing is working with really good people.

I think I'm a great organizer. Not that I'm organized, but I'm a great organizer of other people.

Leadership is what you need to learn next

I have one of the great temperaments. I have a winning temperament. Hillary Clinton has a bad temperament. She's weak. We need a strong temperament.

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.

Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.

To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for

There is a lot of management going on with directing. Maybe that was the biggest surprise-just the amount of tending that I had to do. The different personalities . . . It's not my way, and it's never been my function before as a writer. I tend to be a moody and somewhat withdrawn person, and I felt very clearly that I had to throw that away because that wasn't allowed here - there were other people who were going to be filling that role. Sometimes it became exhausting, especially around the eleventh hour of the day.