Henry Mintzberg Quotes

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

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

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

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

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

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself.

Leaders create a sense of urgency. And along with that you have to create a sense of hope and a direction.

Management is different from leadership..

I think that the CEO is responsible for setting the vision, for articulating the mission, and for building a team of powerful evangelists that share that mission and that passion, because no one person can do anything by themselves.

Leaders tend to focus on 'what to do,' but the real issue is more often 'how to do it.'

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

Naturally, managers and coaches are trying to find different ways to work.

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

Ambition is important for any manager or coach, owner or director.

I've run a very successful business, and I think I can also run a very successful team.

Managers are driving the ship, so to speak, without actually being on the pitch, so every manager I've worked under here definitely deserves credit.

As a manager, you need to have your own vision and what you want to do with the team.

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

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.