Sean Dyche Quotes

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

You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company's culture and propel you forward.

'Lead with LUV' is the first book I've ever done that's just a pure conversation between my coauthor and me.

One of the things I like to do is let the players play and the coaches coach.

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

At City, I didn't realise how much we had to do until we got there. Here, I didn't need to change the staff because there is quality already. So they certainly don't need me getting in the way in training by trying to show I can still play. No way.

Every manager has his own idea of playing and his own idea of the training, and everyone has a different personality.

I want to do some coaching, maybe a couple of days a week, and start building up slowly - find out my philosophy, how I like to play and things like that. I want to be a coach now and eventually I want to be a manager.

If I hire a coach, he's the coach and will run what he knows and is comfortable with. Will it be part of the process? Absolutely. But I am not going to interfere that way as the president.

SK will evolve and develop based on its corporate culture and human resources.

I always get saddled as a player's coach, and I'm happy about that.

Every coach has his own philosophy.

People often talk about a coach's philosophy, but generally, I think managers look at the players they have and then decide on their style.

There has been only one manager, and his name is John McGraw.

As for whether I am a 'new age guru', I am not at all. I help companies build employees who lead without a title and become high performers.

We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way.

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.

As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.

Too many talk about a company's leadership, referring to the senior most executives in the organization. They are just that: senior executives. Leadership doesn't automatically happen when you reach a certain pay grade. Hopefully you find it there, but there are no guarantees.

Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.