Uday Kotak Quotes

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

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.

Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.

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.

You need to have proper management if you're going to move forward.

In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

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

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

Vision without execution is delusion.

Challenges need to be given to an organization.

As chief of staff, I was responsible for running a multibillion-dollar organization with over 34,000 employees, and working on everything from health care to transportation.

It's one thing to be able to analyze something. It's another to implement it or execute on a vision or even to get a whole bunch of people to rally behind it.

A manager has to have all different sides covered.

I used to spend my time more on process than strategy. Now, I prioritize my time around strategy, people, and process.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

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

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

Ideas are cheap. The difficult part is finding the team to execute them.

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

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

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.