Irene Rosenfeld Quotes

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

I've got a really great team around me. They're the ones that are in the restaurants on a day to day basis. Anyone that's good can't be stifled in any way. I don't baby people.

When you empower people you sign up for a life of uncertainty and change.

There is power in helping people get excited about what they do and inspiring and motivating them to unleash their full potential.

If leadership is something that is in-your-face, then that is a different type of leadership.

Our philosophy at Zoom is to create a company that promotes self-motivation. I have told our managers not to spend too much time motivating employees. You have to create an environment where employees can motivate themselves. That is really important because self-motivation is more sustainable.

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.

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

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

I don't want to be a princess who sits on the sidelines; I want to be present and actively involved. It's a life with a purpose.

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

Leadership does not mean domination

One philosophy I have at AngelList is I would rather have someone working on the wrong thing and do it their way and be motivated, than working on the right thing and do it my way and not be motivated.

Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they're doing it. That's purpose. And that's the key to achieving something truly transformational.

In terms of leadership, you've got to allow for people to be amazing and to contribute in a way that's meaningful. You can't hold on so tight that people don't get a chance to do what they do best.

If you hire great people, and they're all self-motivated, then you can get by without a lot of structure.

When there is genuine vision(as opposed to the all-too-familiar vision statement), people excel and learn, not because they are told to, but because they want to.

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.

There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.

The strongest leaders do not command, they empower

You can inspire people to give you greatness, or you can micro-manage them into your own one specific kernel of an idea. To me, I think that when you inspire people to give their best, then you're going to get the best result.