Mindy Grossman Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I think that if you run a big company, you've got to, four or five times a year, just say, 'Hey team, look, here's where we're going.' If you do it 10 times, nobody wants to work for you. If you do it zero times, you have anarchy.

You have to be able to communicate the vision to the people in your organization so that they know where and how they should direct themselves on a day-to-day basis.

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.

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

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

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.

Good managers ensure good outcomes, but great leaders can deliver a vision by getting people to work together.

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.

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

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

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

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

One of the things that I think I do well as a CEO is that I'm present. When I'm with my employees, I'm there in the moment.

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