Brian Krzanich Quotes

I think that every manager who starts work with a team has the best expectations and is giving all he's got to improve immediately.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

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

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

As a manager, you manage a team and there are good periods where there are good feelings in the group.

We need to find ways to grow as a team and get better to be the best team possible.

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 the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

Leadership and management are not synonymous.

I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and people weren't well treated.

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

My job is to give my team a chance to win.

I've got a really great team around me. They're the ones that are in the restaurants on a day to day basis. Anyone that's good can't be stifled in any way. I don't baby people.

Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.

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.

Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

I think in any organization you want your manager to have a strong opinion. You don't want them to just say, 'Yes, sir' to things they don't believe in.

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.