Toby Alderweireld Quotes

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

I never thought I was a very good manager.

The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

The one thing I've known and I've learned from the best managers, it's to stay positive.

Of course every manager has a different mentality, different philosophy.

Being a manager is more than a job. It's my passion. From the moment I wake up in the morning it's my passion.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up.

I try to help people with management stuff a lot.

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

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.

Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

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.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

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.

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

I'm a natural management guy. I had forgotten that. And I forgot how much I hate it.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

To be a good leader, you have to be a good communicator. As a leader, you have to communicate your intent every chance you get, and if you fail to do that, you will pay the consequences.

When you're a leader at any level of any scale, leaders are defined at times of crisis.

There is a lot to managing, and with almost four years under my belt, I believe I'm ready.