Hasso Plattner Quotes

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

Management must manage!

When you're a leader and a manager, you have to make decisions which are right for your group to achieve the primary objective. Sometimes those decisions will be criticised.

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.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

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

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.

A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.

I never thought I was a very good manager.