Jim Yong Kim Quotes

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

My dad has a certain spirit, a twinkle in his eye, someone who can set a certain standard for players but also convey it with humor. What I learned from him is that coaching is, more than anything, about connecting with people.

I take the role of leadership as the most important job I have. Yes, it's the passes and all the different things you have to do, but it's leading and it's in the huddle and it's in the weight room and the meeting rooms. It's that role I think comes first.

It's not always the player that's talking in the dressing room that becomes a good manager. It's a feeling that you need to develop, it's a feeling that needs to grow on you.

When you're at the lower levels in the organization, you need to win and be right. But as you move up, you need to let other people win and be right, and become a manager and delegate responsibility.

It takes a special individual to be a coach to pay attention to all that bad stuff and keep people accountable.

Working together on solving something requires a high level of humility and a high level of self-awareness.

Well, I think I've had the opportunity to be around some great coaches and players. And I have been able to learn a little bit, something different from every single one that I've been around.

It's about what the players are doing. My job is facilitate that. My job is to put them in positions to succeed. My job is to listen to their ideas, take them if they're good, quietly push them to the side if they're not. My job is to help them grow.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

I think there's a lot to be learned from your teammates and older guys around you. And there are many ways to lead. You don't have to change your personality to be a leader.

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

At the moment we need training for leadership.

Coaching is very complex: it's like a puzzle, and many things need to come together to make it work.