Jules Verne Quotes

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

The problem with communicating without a coordinator is that everyone has to read everyone else's mind.

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.

The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

Anytime you get nine people together, whether it's at a party or it's in the conference room of the Supreme Court, you do have to maintain some order, or it does kind of degenerate into squabbling pretty quickly.

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

One of the great things about unions is they're member driven and give us the great ability to both lead and follow at the same time.

Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

If three come together let them pick a leader.

For running a country, team work is important, and the person at the helm has to enjoy teamwork.

I've organized everything for my family since I was little. I know how to delegate and budget. I solve people's problems.

I try to be as good a director as I possibly can. I try to be prepared, and I hope everyone else is. The preparation, I suppose, means just about everything. Little things mean a lot.

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

It's important to keep your long term perspective and communicate well both externally and internally.

I think that there is an element where leadership is lonely, but I also believe that it doesn't have to be like that.

In all things, you need a good organization. You can have the best player in the world; if you do not have the best team, you will not win.

When you build a team, and you have 24 or 25 players, all can be decisive; can be important.

I think the best thing a team can have is different leaders.

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.

I don't really like to work with a large team and assistants, because then I lose so much time explaining things, which I don't like.

In a nine-piece-band is one guy gonna call up eight guys and have a 45-minute discussion about every decision? No. So things are a lot more democratic in Stone Sour. Plus, we're closer and it's a lot easier to communicate. In Slipknot that's the big problem - communication.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.