Peter Diamandis Quotes

Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.

The model a lot of companies use is a very pyramidal model which sort of designates that all creativity, all wisdom flows from the top. We think that's the absolute wrong model.

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for.

Command-and-control isn't the kind of corporate culture people want to be in anymore.

I think any time there's a change in leadership there's a different personality, there's a different style involved with it, different demeanor.

I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

There's increasing consciousness that a "command and control" style of management which one associates with a male model isn't necessarily what works anymore, especially with small to medium sized companies. There's increasing evidence that a more flexible management style, where responsibility is distributed up and down the line, is what works best. And that kind of management style is one that will allow individual workers more flexibility - men and women.

A change in leadership is required to produce a change in outcomes.

We must change the decisions we are making by changing the people who are making them.

Change the leader, change the organization.

It took a firm hand, sometimes a fist, to imbue a bureaucracy this vast with effective compassion.

I want to run this party like a campaign—not a bureaucracy.

To tell the truth, I'm more comfortable now that the amateurs are back in charge [of the White House].

We must not just change presidents. We must change direction.

George W. Bush’s idea of leadership is, “I lead; you follow.”

I’m not running this district by consensus or committee. I’m not running this school district through the democratic process.

Some people need a command-and-control environment.

I am thrilled to join Weight Watchers and lead the next phase of the company's transformation.

Change is a process which has to be managed.

Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better.

I think there's always an adjustment when somebody new is runnings things, from the top down.

In the mid-'80s when the business took a big change, everybody was living their character.

It never worked having a management style where someone would try to tell us what to do. It's never been the sort of group that we are.

If you are a manager with a new owner who has more ideas than knowledge, all you can do is get your head down and do your best, which is what Malky Mackay did at Cardiff.