Carrie Lam Quotes

You need to have discussions and make sure you guide players towards the collective spirit. It can't be done overnight.

I always focus on team building - both in office and at home.

You can be the best manager in the world, but if the players don't trust you, it will never work.

I have been captain in the past and I know what it takes to gel a team and get it going.

Fundamentally, what you're trying to do when you're directing is get a group of people who most likely have never met, unify them, and make sure that we're all clear on what we're marching towards.

I think it makes the game much easier to play once you have a good cohesion off the court. I think that's big because you come into a locker room at the NBA level, there's so much emotion, so much pride in the locker room.

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

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

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

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.

The most important thing I've done at work has been to surround myself with amazing people who I trust and empower fully to do stuff better than I could.

Leaders must establish common purpose and build trust within an organization.

As a leader, you want your team to play as you are.

When you trust and have elevated personnel in each department, then the sky really is the limit. If you don't have that trust in the backbone of the project, you may not know what you're making.

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

It's difficult to gel players.

You can't really yell, 'Charge!' and hope to have your team behind you unless they agree that the hill you are trying to take is a hill you should take.

I think the best thing a team can have is different leaders.

You don't create a big and strong team easily.

I can lead my team.

Especially in today's age, when you're in the huddle with guys from all different backgrounds and all different ages, you have to be able to lead, get everybody on the same page, and do what it takes to win.

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.

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.