Lynn Good Quotes

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

It's hard to be successful over the long term if you're not unified and there's not that synergy between coach and front office.

I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.

And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done.

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.

To get things done, you have to get people together.

Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.

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

The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

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

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

Historically, NBCUniversal had brilliant people, but some of them didn't do a very good job of working together.

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.

Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.