Andy Stanley Quotes

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

Leaders make things better and that requires change.

There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

We started Kotter International to improve leaders' ability to deal with big, important transformations in organizations - and in their lives.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better.

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

When you're President you have to make a lot of tough decisions. You have to keep lining them up and making them.

We shall either find a way or make one.

When the public or the Council pass the buck up to me I am going to act.

Governing is about making tough decisions, but it's also about figuring out a better way to do things.

You have to have an idea of what you need to do, what needs to be fixed, what can be improved, what we should now imagine together which we didn't previously imagine. And having thought of it, decide to go it. And that's the government's role.

We've navigated a lot of change at Campbell's. The best thing for me to be able to do is to discuss that change with people.

I regularly encourage employees to break rules. I also say to employees that leadership starts with complaining and dissatisfaction. But it doesn't stop there. It comes from saying you're dissatisfied with something and then fixing it and making it better for everybody.

Finding a better way is all I do.

When things that normally work aren't working, you have to go to something else.