Kathleen Kennedy Quotes

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.

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

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

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.

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

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 - mobilization toward a common goal.

Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

Leadership is influence.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

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

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

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

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.

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

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.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.

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.