James H. Boren Quotes

I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

I've always tried to be a leader.

Even without tactical discipline, what is important for a team is having players with maturity and a sense of responsibility.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

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

What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyone's ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

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

The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.

During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.

Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.

Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

The perfect bureaucrat … is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

There is only one way to respond to the issue of leadership and that is to lead.

As a President, you need to have someone around you who can tell you that you are wrong.

I’m an executive now. I have to be a bigger leader, more responsible leader, more careful about how I say things….

I've organized everything for my family since I was little. I know how to delegate and budget. I solve people's problems.