Claudio Ranieri Quotes

My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.

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

The decisions you make are based on what you think is better for the team and the player.

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.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

Everybody on my team - I couldn't do their jobs. I could not. I really mean that. So I figured out early on that the way you're successful is you hire really successful people.

The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

I like to study the question or the problem or the opportunity in hand, work with the team to come with the right answer, make a decision, and act upon it. Some people have said that, actually, today they pretty much like their bankers dull.

I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

The way you build trust with your team is around super-clear communication in that instant when they say, 'I will be sad if you don't do X.' You have to say, 'We're not going to do X, and here's why, and believe me, you'll be much sadder later if I let you go do it and you spend a bunch of time on it and nothing ever happens.'

Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

Joint committees are heat generators rather than light producers.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.

When building a strong team, you need a strong leader.

You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

I am very lucky in my team. They sit opposite me, and I get to see them every day sitting there staring at the seating chart, not doing much. It is almost like a chess game.

In the end what matters is, do you develop your team, do you win games and do you graduate your players.

It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team.

One of the things I like to do is let the players play and the coaches coach.

Good leaders make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.