Davis Webb Quotes

Good leaders make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

When building a strong team, you need a strong leader.

It's an interesting juxtaposition, being student body president and leading others and learning how to effectively help people on the team in a way that's not as direct.

But the art of management has not changed. The art of it is still 80 to 90 per cent man-management. It is just a matter of getting the best out of what you have got.

One of the main tasks of a manager is psychology.

I don't view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I'm part of the team, but everybody else as well.

Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

You don't make a movie by yourself; you certainly don't make a TV show by yourself. You invest people in their work. You make people feel comfortable in their jobs; you keep people talking.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.

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.

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

I don't think I am that hands-on. I'm much more of a believer in finding a great team of people and trusting them to follow their instincts. They work better when they feel they have freedom and they are trusted.

I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy.

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

In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

To be a good leader, you have to be a good communicator. As a leader, you have to communicate your intent every chance you get, and if you fail to do that, you will pay the consequences.

The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?

When you're a leader at any level of any scale, leaders are defined at times of crisis.

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.