Robert Pozen Quotes

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

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Management is different from leadership..

Like most entrepreneurs, getting motivated to work has never been a problem for me; focus comes through delegating tasks to the best people you can find.

Leaders tend to focus on 'what to do,' but the real issue is more often 'how to do it.'

A manager has to have all different sides covered.

My experience with Epic is handing off more and more power to the point where I can just sit back and look at our strategy or technology. I provide guidance without being responsible for any particular part of the company.

One thing that will never change as a manager is that there is so much game stuff and management stuff to deal with that you want good information.

As a manager, you need to have your own vision and what you want to do with the team.

It's extremely instructive to realize that you cannot do everything. You need to delegate, to find experts, to consult with them. A big part of the job of directing is knowing when to take something on and when you shouldn't.

That's the fun part of being CEO. You can actually say, 'Hey, this is what we should be spending our time on,' and people get it.

CEOs who can hire properly, that's the most important part of the job. The CEO's job is really to hire the right team and execute the vision second.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

I've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.

Leadership and management are not synonymous.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go.

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.

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

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

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.

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.