Sandra E. Peterson Quotes

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

I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

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.'

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.

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?

I think effective leaders typically are able to see the future to a certain degree and then try to take actions to shape it in some way.

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.

As a director, you realise the bigger picture.

The execution of strategy is over to the captain and coach, as it always has been. It's the right way to go. We need clear role allocations, the coach and the captain go and execute and my job is to plan for the future.

We need to be aware of what we need to do at every moment... and we have to manage the game; that's the art of a great team.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

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

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.

Launching a start-up, you need to get a lot done quickly. Every day is different. Everyone pitches in with everything. It's easy for the founding team to say, 'We're flexible. We all help out with everything!' But when it comes to making decisions - that flexibility can spell inefficiency and disaster.

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.

A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.

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

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

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

I need to build my team around my weaknesses.

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.