Ofra Strauss Quotes

Being a successful CEO, where I've driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that's a critical benefit to running the state government.

Challenges need to be given to an organization.

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

The skills I acquired in Southeastern Louisiana University, Thrifty Drugs, Pacific Mutual, along with knowing the history, behavior and local staff, helped make Golden Eagle a success story.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

I look forward to working closely with the CDK Board, management team, and employees to enable CDK to meet its full potential to generate value for all of its stakeholders.

Obviously when a new manager comes in, he's got to instill his own ideas within the team and with his set-up for the games.

There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

Over my career, somewhere, somehow I must've made some right calls. Otherwise, I wouldn't be in business.

Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.

I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

I'm here to help make sure that the people who do things well at DC are set up to do them as well, and even better, in the future.

I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.

I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies.