Scott Bakula Quotes

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

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.

Floor time is valuable. Our leadership isn't going to bring something up that's going to take up floor time and not be successful.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

Leadership is influence.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

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

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

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.

Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.

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

What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyone's ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.

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

There's smarter people than me. But you cannot have any one guy running 18 billion-dollar businesses. It just doesn't make sense to me. I've met some extraordinary leaders in my time. They struggle with running one billion-dollar business.

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

In business, you try to solve problems.

A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

You always learn lessons in business.