Marc Randolph Quotes

You can learn a lot about good management by working under someone who is a bad manager.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

I think too much of my leadership is done the bad way.

The worst coach I have ever had was Roberto Mancini. I never liked his training methods.

The overriding problem with our country, and our world in general, is that we are, in large part, managed by incompetents. Most of these are men who have spent their lives seeking power rather than themselves.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset.

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

And I think if the president's made a mistake here, it's this laid-back kind of approach where he's waiting for someone else to solve the problem. Some people say it's a political strategy. No matter what it is, it's not effective in solving problems.

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

Leading from behind doesn't work.

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

What happens with a lot of leaders is that their leadership style is like ADD; they are all over the place with different ideas. They could be driving one idea forward but then move on to something else too soon.

The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.

Old mismanagement is no excuse for the continuance of it.

[Referring to his successor:] The present imbecile chief.

The President has now taken entire charge, his instructions are very brief and not clear, they are not issued with adequate knowledge of what has gone on before ...

The trouble with General Hooker is that he has his headquarters where his hindquarters ought to be.

Do not conuse motion with progress. A rocking horse makes a creates a lot of motion but goes nowhere. We are facing a "rocking hourse Presidency".

When a leader doesn't do his or her job, it isn't just a problem with the person. They take their whole organization down.

The number of businesses that fold due to bad partnerships is staggering. In some cases, they are charlatans, in others inept business people, and others find themselves unable to scale with any growth.