Abigail Johnson Quotes

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

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

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

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.

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

We lead by influence. That is what good leadership is about.

Leadership—not salesmanship

Management is different from leadership..

I've always tried to be a leader.

The ability to have influence and create change and drive the strategy of an organization is really what excites me.

I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn't know very well. They didn't know me, and we had a very short window to put together a credible recovery plan.

Leadership and management are not synonymous.

Leadership is influence.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

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.

Always, in every human action, there are leaders.

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

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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

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.