Ben Silbermann Quotes

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.

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

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?

Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I'm good at this, so I'm going to be good at that - and it's not that way at all.

You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important.

The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.

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

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.

I never thought I was a very good manager.

The key to good management is keeping the guys on your team who hate your guts away from the guys who haven't made up their minds.

The book is actually called 'A Mentor Leader, a Different Way to Lead.' It really talks about my experience in the way I tried lead our football team, things that I learned from, basically, the coaches that I played for and my parents about leadership. And it is a little bit different, counter to maybe what society says about great leaders.

I think it is rewarding to manage, but it is not what I am passionate about. Managing more than 200 people, maybe 150 people, isn't fun to me and is not my skill set.

One of my strengths is connecting with the players.

I had many good managers: Wim Jansen, Martin O'Neill, Frank Rijkaard, and Alex Ferguson, to name just a few.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

Sometimes you need to encourage them sometimes even to comfort them, let them know I trust them. Sometimes you need to tell the truth, being more aggressive. That's management. I need to put the players in the best possible conditions.

Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.

Luiz Felipe Scolari was a good professional, a nice person, someone you could talk with before and after games. He has a lot of experience and is a good manager.

I've had five managers, and I've played with all of them.

I understand that I have to prove myself as a manager. I think I have the potential. I have a lot of knowledge to share, and I think I'm well equipped to translate my thoughts to the players.

I want to do this for as long as I possibly can and coach as many different teams and opportunities and different kind of personalities. I want to gobble that all up. And I want to be able to give and add value to these teams.

Having the ability to relate to people is such an important part of management and leadership.

Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help your team improve.

One of the main tasks of a manager is psychology.