Adena Friedman Quotes

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.

Leadership is influence.

Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

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.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the future.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

Leadership—not salesmanship

Leadership requires a blend of strategy, persuasion, inspiration and motivation. It is based on respect more than fear.