Susan Cain Quotes

A team will take on its manager's personality. If it's a laid back manager, you'll have a laid back personality. The players will see that if it's OK for the Manager to be laid back, then you'll have a laid back team.

Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.

I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

There are lots of colleagues for whom I have a great deal of personal affection. But they’re not necessarily the people I go do to get something done.

A player-led team is better than a coach-led team, no doubt.

Teams usually take on the personality of the coach.

Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for no reason.

I think every coach brings their own personality.

Steve [Jobs] proves that it's OK to be an asshole... He just has a different OS.

Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.

People do a better job if they respect the leader of the company. I learned that on my mission - the value of people and how to truly appreciate them.

Many managers feel, somewhat cynically, that people are being paid to do their jobs and that's that. This attitude reflects an insensitivity to people that is a trademark of many hockey-style managers.

The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept.

Introverts almost never cause me trouble and are usually much better at what they do than extroverts. Extroverts are too busy slapping one another on the back, team building, and making fun of introverts to get much done. Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow responsible.

I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that's exactly what I would have done.

I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.

For the benefit of those of you who have real jobs and are not involved in the news business, I should first explain that . . .

One reason (among many) that women may well take over the world of "virtual enterprises" is that they seem to have a greater instinct for networking. And the unfettered-by-machismo males who have taken to networking will do better than those who shun it as "sissy stuff." But truth is, it has always been the age of "networkers"; and in an era where organizations depend more and more on tenuously connected outsiders to get the job done, it will only become so.

Do your job and do it right, life's a ball, TV tonight.

A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title.

I really like action. I really liked running around. I loved being really physical. I'm a big believer in it's okay if this job is really about entertaining people.

Culture is very important to the Mavs.... It isn't about who talks the most or the loudest. It is about the demeanor and attitude he brings.

Typically, people who exercise start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. It's not completely clear why. But for many people, exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.

Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for.

Titles or organizational structures, that’s not the lens through which we see our peers.