Wendy Kopp Quotes

If people believe in your material, they will do whatever it takes to get it done. Even if they don't, but you make it as awesome an experience as possible, they will help you reach your goals.

I like to think I set aspirational but reasonable goals and encourage my team to achieve them.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

Leadership means making people feel good.

I think the most effective managers in the world have a team that wants to jump through brick walls for them.

In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.

Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun.

You really just have to come in and build the spirit up of your team by working them everyday, showing them examples of what they've done and reinforce their work.

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

No dream is ever chased alone.

When you have a creative business and ideas generated from people working together, I think you can work happier together.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there's less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.

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

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.