Todd English Quotes

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

I don't think I am that hands-on. I'm much more of a believer in finding a great team of people and trusting them to follow their instincts. They work better when they feel they have freedom and they are trusted.

Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

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.

Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment.

Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

I have a great team at WME.

I try to be the best that I can be and the best to the people that work for me.

I'm not a great boss because I don't like to tell other people what to do.

My idea is bring in good people and then get out of their way.

I get the team set up good and then I'll let them do their thing. At the end of the day, if you put the time and effort into interviewing and finding the right people for a job, you've got to let them do that job.

I think that every manager who starts work with a team has the best expectations and is giving all he's got to improve immediately.

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

I wouldn't ask any of my employees to do anything I wouldn't do. And I work as hard, if not harder than the rest of the staff, to set an example. I also believe in giving my employees a lot of room to be creative and to express themselves.

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.

You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.