Sanjay Kumar Quotes

I don't think it's my job, single-handedly, to fix anything. I think it's my job to have a vision and have a plan that is reasonable and workable and get as many people to the table to effect change as possible.

Producing major change in an organization is not just about signing up one charismatic leader. You need a group - a team - to be able to drive the change. One person, even a terrific charismatic leader, is never strong enough to make all this happen.

Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.

I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down.

I don't view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I'm part of the team, but everybody else as well.

An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.

I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team.

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.

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.

One of the things I'm adamant about as a bandleader is not micromanaging. I'm an advocate for the concept of allowing everyone to be fully vested in what they're doing, so everyone contributes whatever they're inspired to contribute.

You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

The B Team can catalyse initiatives.

You can’t do leadership alone.

My leadership style is to produce a fear of not changing..

it’s no longer doing things to people. It’s not even doing things for people. It’s doing things with people.

Everyone has a part to play. We have the power. You can do it.

What I'm trying to do is teach people how to actually get individuals in organizations to do the kinds of things to make a difference. It starts with not just studying the mechanics but really understanding how people operate.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

On 'Sound of My Voice,' I was the first and last word, which is kind of a dictatorship. I like collectives, though.

Being the captain is a great privilege and a responsibility to lead a great group with different cultures.

When employees join executives in truly owning the responsibility for business success, an exciting new sense of teamwork takes hold.

No one person is going to come in and change the world, or a national team.