Andrew Whitworth Quotes

I think the best thing a team can have is different leaders.

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

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.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

Part of being a successful leader is listening and looking for opportunities to bring people together.

I think communication is massive in football and in all sports in general.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

I want to be the best leader.

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

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.

You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe.

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

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

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

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

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.'

Leadership matters most, and optimism and unity comes from the leader.

Leadership involves persuasion, and conciliation, and education and patience. It's long, slow, tough work. That is the only kind of leadership I know or will believe in, or will practice.

I had to learn to trust people, and I realized that success was going to be born in hiring really bright people - very self-motivated, very able to make good judgment calls day in and day out.

When you're a manager, we sometimes speak too much about tactics, but the most difficult thing for a manager is to get the best from his best players.

In a team, you need players who are technically good and can perform under pressure.

When you are the manager, you want to win.

Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.

A great team relies on its leaders and they have to make a difference at key moments.