Nick Woodman Quotes

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

Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

You really just have to come in and build the spirit up of your team by working them everyday, showing them examples of what they've done and reinforce their work.

I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.

In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

Good managers ensure good outcomes, but great leaders can deliver a vision by getting people to work together.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

A good leader, in my view, should have a clear vision of the future they want and the society they need to build. They must also have a connection with the people who work for them and be able to mobilise their best energies to create teams where people can be most creative and happy.

To pass on your ideas and have an influence on a team really interests me.

Leadership involves building an esprit de corps, the creation of a sense of purpose in pursuit of noble and clear objectives.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

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.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

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.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

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

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.