Julia Hartz Quotes

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

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 one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

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

Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

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.

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

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 ever-evolving position.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

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.

Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk…. Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations…. Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.

I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.

I think that the CEO is responsible for setting the vision, for articulating the mission, and for building a team of powerful evangelists that share that mission and that passion, because no one person can do anything by themselves.

Leadership is always about change: it's not about mobilising people to do what they've always done well to continue to do it well.

Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

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

Coaching was something I've never had much interest in. I've always been a big-picture guy, like a manager has to be.

Many fine coaches never become great managers.

Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.