Jeffrey R. Immelt Quotes

I think that the CEO is responsible for setting the vision, for articulating the mission, and for building a team of powerful evangelists that share that mission and that passion, because no one person can do anything by themselves.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.

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

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

You've got to have a vision. You've got to have a message.

Leaders create a sense of urgency. And along with that you have to create a sense of hope and a direction.

Management is different from leadership..

Some people are really good at the visionary role. They're like third grade teachers who tell people the vision and values over and over and over until they get it right, right, right. But they're not implementers. If they're good leaders, they gather people around them who can take the implementation role and move it forward.

First of all, you've got to have a vision of 'What kind of program do I want to have?' Then you've got to have a plan to implement it. Then you've got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.

As a leader, your job is to share your vision with your followers and either warn them of danger or highlight opportunities coming in the future.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

If the vision is not right and if the right group of players is not together, it doesn't come together.

As a manager, you need to have your own vision and what you want to do with the team.

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.