Andrew Strauss Quotes

There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.

My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

When you are the manager, you want to win.

There's a lot I need to improve on. YAC, which I'm last in. Being a better leader. Not getting frustrated when things aren't going my way.

When you're managing a team the key is, I guess, to find where those boundaries are, where you're prepared to let people go, to what extent you're allowing them to be a free spirit because ultimately it's all got to be in the greater cause which is making sure the team wins cricket games.

It's in my head that I am a leader, and captaining Monchengladbach was very good for me.

The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

It's a completely different thing, but there's so many things I learned from being an athlete that helped me in business. The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.

You try and learn from some people's mistakes. But you have to really trust the people who are working for you because they make a lot of decisions that could either do well for you or really screw up your image.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

My job is to give my team a chance to win.

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

I could have coached better.

Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.

I never thought being the producer was being the dictator. It means being the director and being the coach. It's a way of keeping everybody focused on the goal, and also having final say. Everybody can be in the same car, but somebody has to drive.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.