Nancy Dubuc Quotes

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

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

I'm not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player's ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence... I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself.

In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

As a leader, you want your team to play as you are.

The best thing you can do as a leader when people are pressed is get the obstacles out of their way.

The one thing I've known and I've learned from the best managers, it's to stay positive.

It's an interesting juxtaposition, being student body president and leading others and learning how to effectively help people on the team in a way that's not as direct.

But the art of management has not changed. The art of it is still 80 to 90 per cent man-management. It is just a matter of getting the best out of what you have got.

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.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

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

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

The key to management is to get rid of the managers.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

I've got a really great team around me. They're the ones that are in the restaurants on a day to day basis. Anyone that's good can't be stifled in any way. I don't baby people.

I think one of my strengths is that I can always take advice, and I can delegate. I know a lot of people feel the need to do everything themselves, but I am not one of them.

You don't make a movie by yourself; you certainly don't make a TV show by yourself. You invest people in their work. You make people feel comfortable in their jobs; you keep people talking.

I need to build my team around my weaknesses.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.