Chris Hughton Quotes

Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.

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.

I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.

Effective management always means asking the right question.

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

I used to think my job as a CEO meant managing metrics and meeting goals, but I've realised now that's it's about managing my board and employees.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how you do that in public institutions.

At HBO, my leadership had to inspire and gain the respect of employees in a large company with over 100 external business relationships in dozens of countries.

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.

All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself.

Conflicts have to be resolved. That is the responsibility of leadership. And globalization is the biggest conflict today.

Providing the vision is easy. Getting policy right is hard. The hard thing about the modern world is doing it. The world is changing so fast.

Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.

I would say that I'm blessed with a very, very good executive team that operates, reasonably autonomously, each of the companies.

Look first at management. That's the key to a company.

We have a lot of people with a Western education who work in Russia and understand the international rules of business and corporate governance.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

When you're a manager, we sometimes speak too much about tactics, but the most difficult thing for a manager is to get the best from his best players.

We've always gone to other countries where there's been different standards and different practices you have to adhere to. WWE is like any other company, a global company.

People talk about flip charts, tactic boards and other rubbish like that. But the truth is that as a manager you just need to get the best out of the players at your disposal.

Expanding internationally is exciting and fun, but the hardest part is really about maintaining culture.