Max Euwe Quotes

Leaders tend to focus on 'what to do,' but the real issue is more often 'how to do it.'

We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

I'm fascinated with films that deal with strategy because there's a right way and a wrong way to get the job done.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

It's one thing to be able to analyze something. It's another to implement it or execute on a vision or even to get a whole bunch of people to rally behind it.

The more games you play, the more game management you learn.

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

Ideas are cheap. The difficult part is finding the team to execute them.

Game management, game decisions, adjustments, seeing things during games - it's all important.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.

It is easy to say that something should be done. However to say what, when and how is more difficult.

Strategy must dominate tactics, not the other way around.

You have to have an idea of what you need to do, what needs to be fixed, what can be improved, what we should now imagine together which we didn't previously imagine. And having thought of it, decide to go it. And that's the government's role.

I would say my strengths are vision and strategy.

Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.

I have been doing this for a long, and it is the players who learn who you need to work with. You have to coach them to think and understand the game. If they cannot, then you have to tell them, 'You have to do this anyway,' but the best thing to do is say, 'Listen, if he is doing this, then maybe you have to do that.'

As a mayor, my instinct is to really think about how to get something done and not to make the promise unless you have some view of the pathway. You don't have to have it all figured out, but you have to have a pathway there.

When there's something we weren't prepared for on the football field, you have to be able to use your mind, be creative, communicate, get lined up and get ready to do the play, get ready to execute.

Actually, one of the fascinating things that I've learned playing chess is that the way you play chess is kind of like the way you live your life.

From my experience, the best advisors help in three ways: encourage you to look at the problem or opportunity from multiple angles; help you balance the tug of the short-term with important long-term priorities; and ask the tough questions you need to know to reach the best solution.

Leaders make things happen. Leaders will take a situation and try and figure out what is it that we're trying to do, what is the problem, what kind of priorities and resources do we need, what kind of people do I need to bring to bear on this problem, what kind of plans do we need to succeed.

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.