Edwin Catmull Quotes

Throughout my career, I've been someone who's led... and solved problems we had.

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

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

If I look myself as a manager, I have lot more to learn.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

I’m an executive now. I have to be a bigger leader, more responsible leader, more careful about how I say things….

Leaders listen. Staggeringly well.

I think it's very important, I think for any leader as you go through a career you have to learn the leadership lessons.

When I go into management, I want to do so with 100 per cent commitment.

When I meet with people who are ineffective managers with failing businesses, I can't change what they do - I have to change the way they think.

For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.

The formation is not the most important thing.

If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.

Every manager must be prepared to face every situation.

Collaborative decision-making is very poor in crises.

Galliani is a great leader but can't understand players.

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day.

But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.

We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up.