Richard V. Allen Quotes

I have to put my team in a good situation.

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

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

When you are the manager, you want to win.

I can lead my team.

As a captain, I just want to lead the team properly.

I think I can run a team pretty well.

But the art of management has not changed. The art of it is still 80 to 90 per cent man-management. It is just a matter of getting the best out of what you have got.

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.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Leadership is influence.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.

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.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

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

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

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.

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

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

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

I don't think I am that hands-on. I'm much more of a believer in finding a great team of people and trusting them to follow their instincts. They work better when they feel they have freedom and they are trusted.