Denise Morrison Quotes

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.

Leadership and partnership go together.

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

I'm really looking to facilitate, find my teammates.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

I need to build my team around my weaknesses.

Organizations that can diminish fear are those that are able to motivate, create, and innovate.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

I'm not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player's ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence... I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

When you're leading, don't talk.

A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Basically, a manager's job is to make other people more productive. What's one really good way to do that? Do the work that is getting in their way. Which means find out what kind of important work your developers dislike the most, and do it for them.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.