Ron D. Burton Quotes

The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades, that has been a major focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders, their teams and their organizations.

I think it's very important, I think for any leader as you go through a career you have to learn the leadership lessons.

I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

Leadership is hard to train on.

If I look myself as a manager, I have lot more to learn.

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

At the moment we need training for leadership.

The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?

I think there is a lot of experiences you have in coaching, and if you learn from the experiences as you go through them, whether it's as a coordinator or position coach, a quality-control coach, a head coach, whatever it might be, and you learn from those mistakes you make.

I want to do some coaching, maybe a couple of days a week, and start building up slowly - find out my philosophy, how I like to play and things like that. I want to be a coach now and eventually I want to be a manager.

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

There are parts of coaching that I miss.

Every manager can improve.

For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.

There's a conventional wisdom that says that strategic thinking is much more important than relationship building, which doesn't seem to be nearly as highly valued as it should be, based on what some of the leaders that I've spoken with have said to me.

I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.

I think in any organization you want your manager to have a strong opinion. You don't want them to just say, 'Yes, sir' to things they don't believe in.

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do is teach management to somebody who is not a manager, the way you cannot teach surgery to somebody whose not a surgeon.

We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.