Sandra E. Peterson Quotes

I can let the team do the talking for me.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It's a lesson I've had to relearn quite a few times.

Whenever there is somebody at Epic who is capable of doing something better than me, I let them at it.

You can't get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.

I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.

The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.

I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

That's a strong sign of a good coach, to let an assistant participate. It shows his confidence in the coach's ability not to have to dominate everything.

I'm going to be humble, I'm going to be accountable, do it with a smile on my face, make other people around me better.

I love to put the ball in other people's hands.

I try to hire good people and let them do their job and don't question how they do things.

The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.

Real power comes by empowering others.

If you can do it better than me, then you do it.

Being in charge isn't always about telling people what to do. Sometimes, it's about knowing when to step out of the way of people who know what they're doing. - Tam al'Thor

If you ever find a man who is better than you are - hire him. If necessary, pay him more than you pay yourself.

I'm much more collaborative than I probably was when I was first starting, much more willing to say, "I don't know the answer to that." I have really talented people and let them do their jobs and not try to control everything as much as I did when I was starting. I was a bit more insecure.

I think at some point you have to empower others and really allow everyone else to do what they're hired to do and what they're brought onto the team to do.

If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.

Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe.