Jessica McDonald Quotes

Once you're more aware of people's needs, you can create action plans for others to follow. That way, you're responsible for your own well-being, too.

I've got a great team around me. They keep me working hard; they keep me focused.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

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

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

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

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.

My teammates, they keep you focused.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

I completely agree with feeling the need for or the benefits of being pushed and of being directed on a project and collaborating.

When you trust and have elevated personnel in each department, then the sky really is the limit. If you don't have that trust in the backbone of the project, you may not know what you're making.

I just try to find ways to help my team win.

You can't really yell, 'Charge!' and hope to have your team behind you unless they agree that the hill you are trying to take is a hill you should take.

It is not my role to go out and do the power hitting. My job is to play my natural game.

It starts with me. I have to get the team in the right play and throw the ball where it's supposed to go.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

When the coach can get the trust and the confidence of a team to believe in him, and everyone accepts what they're doing for the team, the good and the great of the team, it usually works out.