Bjarke Ingels Quotes

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.

We need a leader able to project his or her personality and present our policies in today's media environment. All this is true - but we also need a leader capable of building a team, inspiring loyalty from colleagues, and one genuinely open to ideas.

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

Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

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.

With the right people, culture, and values, you can accomplish great things.

Leadership involves building an esprit de corps, the creation of a sense of purpose in pursuit of noble and clear objectives.

When I look at a leader, I look at someone who is able to get exceptional performance out of others.

If you are in a leadership position, do not rely on your title to convince people to follow you. Build relationships. Win people over. Do that and you will never be a lonely leader.

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

You really just have to come in and build the spirit up of your team by working them everyday, showing them examples of what they've done and reinforce their work.