Andrew Sullivan Quotes

In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Do not change horses in mid stream unless horse lies to you and the stream is on fire.

It’s very difficult to come to grips with how we screwed this up, but we screwed this up.

Failure to recognize the obvious is not a good characteristic of a leader.

I think a lot of the time, when things were going wrong, I would get blamed for things because I was the point guard.

Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end.

Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.

Just because you're made England captain, it doesn't mean that you suddenly know everything about captaincy.

Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.

How do you govern by captaining the ship? How do you win without the trust of the crew?

Who does not talk cannot be judged. Who does not shoot the penalty cannot miss.

I think it's a requirement that the general manager and the coach are communicating with each other on a regular basis, and it's unacceptable if they're not.

The quarterback position is a role of leadership, and I feel just who I am as a person, I bring different types of leadership to the table.

In the Army, we address a crisis by identifying critical objectives, planning a response, marshaling resources and communicating the plan clearly.

When I joined the Marines, I went to Quantico for training. One of the first things I learned is that you can drop out of a run, a couple runs. You can fail the test or a couple tests in a row, and they'd give you a second try. But if you lied about anything, you were gone that afternoon. That's how important integrity is in the military.

Leadership is about stepping up when it's the appropriate time and then making sure everyone knows that we're all on the same page.

What I do know as a manager, as a person, is that you have to try and be honest with everyone around you. If I leave a player out, they deserve an explanation. It's about communication, about being clear in what you want.

You want to have that trust with your QB; you want to build that camaraderie throughout your team and just have that relationship with them, so when you're out there, he doesn't have anything to worry about. He tells you to run this route, you run it to the best of your ability and be there for him.

That is the great thing about policing, you do have a lot of responsibility very early and you have got to make decisions, sometimes life and death decisions, very quickly and there is something about putting a uniform on and thinking 'people are looking to me to make decisions and to look after them' that makes you feel capable.

I'm the kind of leader who would try to have honest and difficult conversations.

My job as a manager is to get the best out of your players. Sometimes you get it wrong, and you won't get the response that you want, but we all face that every single day.

Learning on the job as England captain is hard.

As a goalkeeper, you feel like if you're treated like adults and have your position explained to you, you respect that. You might not agree with it, but you get on with it.