Erin O'Toole Quotes

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.

A decent player doesn't automatically make a decent manager, I know that. But I will do everything I possibly can.

Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.

Nine times out of ten your two smartest policy advisors disagree.

I just met your Chiefs of Staff. They really know what they are doing,

Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.

If I come in, and you're an employer, and I say, 'Well, I was a sniper in the Marine Corps. Do you have any sniper positions open?' 'No.' But if I told you that I was good at communication, good at leadership under stressful environments, team management, personnel management, leadership, being prompt, are stuff that I can bring to the table.

That is what a good manager does - you study and think and discuss, and you come up with a model of playing.

I think Unai did a great job and was a great leader, and a fantastic coach.

Effectiveness comes from those qualitative things that give you the ability to network, communicate, and lead people toward an outcome they can't see.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

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.

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what's possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that's a valuable thing.

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

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

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.

I haven't had vast amounts of ministerial experience - in fact, none at all. But I do have a lot of experience of people.