Tina Fey Quotes

We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up.

Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

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

For creative tasks, the best approach is often just to hire great people and get out of their way.

I've worked for some amazing leaders, and I've worked for the opposite, and that gave me the perspective of what I knew I never wanted to be, and the perspective of what had lasting, sustainable impact.

This perception that a good captain is someone who beats his chest and roars like a lion and gives big Churchillian speeches, that's just not what leadership is about for me.

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

There are "four keys" to becoming an excellent manager: finding the right fit for employees, focusing on strengths of employees, defining the right results, and hiring for talent - not just knowledge and skills.

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

You can't get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.

Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.

You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.

Why in general, when you're putting together a White House staff and putting together a good one, you're looking for someone there who is not someone who's going to be heavy-handed.

Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail.

Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong and positive people under him.

Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well.

I have great people working for me now. I surround myself with smart people.

I think Americans expect optimism in their leadership. The most popular and effective leaders, whether it was Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan or Jack Kennedy, brought to it a sense of optimism and possibility.

Leadership is a role you have to earn in order to be effective.

My brand of leadership, which is very focused on bringing people together, solving problems - it's what I have always tried to do - just had a hard time being as powerfully compelling in the campaign as I think it has been in previous years for other candidates.

This president [Barack Obama] has had weak leadership, which has led to bad choices. We have got to stop worrying about being loved and start worrying about being respected. And that's exactly how I'll lead our country.

Servant Leadership is the only #leadership that ultimately works.

Being a leader is one thing I've never felt comfortable with. It's not my nature.