Andre Braugher Quotes

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

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

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

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.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.

Leadership requires a blend of strategy, persuasion, inspiration and motivation. It is based on respect more than fear.

I would say my strengths are vision and strategy.

Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.

I've always tried to be a leader.

What makes a leader great is not the fact that she (or he) has all the answers, but the ability to inspire and empower us to find the answers.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

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

I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.

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.

Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

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.

Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

As a leader, these attributes - confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense - are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone.