Phyllida Lloyd Quotes

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

In my experience, the most effective professionals in business and government have the ability to get things done. They're trained to work with multiple stakeholders, to understand how to identify a problem, devise solutions, to compromise and work well with others.

I've been in charge all my damn life, but executive producing is teamwork. You're involved with every aspect of the production, from casting to locations, everything.

I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

I've organized everything for my family since I was little. I know how to delegate and budget. I solve people's problems.

I always feel that the best kind of producing - and frankly, it has to do with what I like to do - is you're the big-picture person.

Once you have a blueprint down, you start talking to all the other heads of department to see if and how they can help to execute what you've imagined, and so things change and evolve. And then you have to make it work within the budget and time frame, so things change even more.

The leadership qualities that you have to have to be a producer on a film is something I learned being a captain on the team.

Engineers have shown to embody a tremendous amount of leadership skills through the collaborative educational environment.

I wanted to work with Shashank Shah. He is a very clear individual.

We had the same doomsday people when we were building the MGM Grand, same people, same doomsday. You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

I have an awesome team. We all talk about what projects are the best for me to work on for my career and which ones to pass on.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

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.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.