Michael Gracey Quotes

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.

You have to be able to communicate the vision to the people in your organization so that they know where and how they should direct themselves on a day-to-day basis.

Keeping people fired up starts with having a really clear vision for what the company is aiming to do.

I think that the CEO is responsible for setting the vision, for articulating the mission, and for building a team of powerful evangelists that share that mission and that passion, because no one person can do anything by themselves.

Coaching was something I've never had much interest in. I've always been a big-picture guy, like a manager has to be.

A good leader, in my view, should have a clear vision of the future they want and the society they need to build. They must also have a connection with the people who work for them and be able to mobilise their best energies to create teams where people can be most creative and happy.

Being able to communicate what your vision is clearly and with specificity is the most important thing a director can do.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.

I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.

I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there.

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.

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

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

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.

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

I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.

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

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.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.

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

My greatest love in life is to develop projects. I just get a huge kick out of that. I've been doing it since ever I could.