Kumar Mangalam Birla Quotes

One of my greatest talents is recognizing talent in others and giving them the forum to shine.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

I can tell people a story that they believe in and get behind. So I'm good at the leadership part. But I've always said that I'm a terrible manager. I'm not good at giving feedback.

I like coaching a lot.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

I like coaching.

In terms of the coaching aspect and things like that, I've always been someone that prides themselves in helping young talent.

You don't forget how to coach.

Many people have told me I could be a coach, but it doesn't appeal.

A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.

Managers develop organisations; leaders develop people.

I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades, that has been a major focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders, their teams and their organizations.

I take a lot of pride in helping people become great. I think that's an element of being a producer that people don't always take in: They want to be great for themselves, whereas I'd like to be recognized as having helped the most people get over the hump.

I want to be a general manager, and I want to be a head coach. Definitely both.

Being a coach is not the same as being a player.

I know how important it is to take different tactics from different managers on board.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.

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.

No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.

Nobody is actually a natural C.E.O.

My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.