Pete Docter Quotes

The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.

If I look myself as a manager, I have lot more to learn.

I need to build my team around my weaknesses.

One of the hardest things about directing is just to be patient and remind yourself that you've been in Week 1 of a rehearsal process yourself, and you know what it feels like.

I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries.

In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'

For a franchise system to work well, you really need people with an entrepreneurial mind-set because, while you have a large, overarching system that everybody has to work with, a lot of local issues have to be handled.

But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success.

I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades, that has been a major focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders, their teams and their organizations.

Throughout my career, I've been someone who's led... and solved problems we had.

It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team.

Allegri is an easy coach to understand, as he doesn't like to work with stupid people.

As a coach you're able to have better relationships with the players because you're not picking the team.

With Zidane he had a lot of relationships with the players, a father-son relationship. Like a friend. Solari does the same, he is being fair to everyone.

I've worked with so many teams, so many dressing rooms.

My idea is to know every player and to know, also, the personality of the players.

Inzaghi is certainly the coach I got along best with.

Engineers have shown to embody a tremendous amount of leadership skills through the collaborative educational environment.

To be a director, you need to be reliable, on time, confident, calm, all of those things you see demonstrated in the military.

It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.

I think the 20-year-old me from that time, if I could have been managed under Jurgen Klopp, I'd have benefitted.

It's never a straightforward thing to do, to be able to inherit a squad. When you're mid-season it's never easy to get a team or a squad of players to function exactly the way you want them to.

It's always important with a young one in your team that he needs to be comfortable in the position he plays.

I think it's very important to have contact with the players that I will coach.

There's going to be situations that you get into that you're going to need help, for sure. But for the most part, I think coaching is just understanding who you have and your team, understanding yourself, and understanding the situation.