Ryne Sandberg Quotes

Leadership and management are not synonymous.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

I never thought I was a very good manager.

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.

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

Management is different from leadership..

I think it is rewarding to manage, but it is not what I am passionate about. Managing more than 200 people, maybe 150 people, isn't fun to me and is not my skill set.

Naturally, managers and coaches are trying to find different ways to work.

There's no shortcut to being a manager or coach.

A manager has to have all different sides covered.

As a manager, you need to have your own vision and what you want to do with the team.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

I've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.

Leadership is influence.

Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.

I try to help people with management stuff a lot.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.

I'm a natural management guy. I had forgotten that. And I forgot how much I hate it.