Simon Sinek Quotes

It is like when a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees. The best leaders come to the aid of their people, whose performance is down. Not come down harder on them.

Most writing staffs have this crazy high turnover, and then everyone's really miserable, and I don't understand that. I don't know why you don't grow people to then be able to take over as you. That's how I can have more shows.

At City, I didn't realise how much we had to do until we got there. Here, I didn't need to change the staff because there is quality already. So they certainly don't need me getting in the way in training by trying to show I can still play. No way.

You see the assets of your actors and you see their strengths and you try to play into them. It's like I feel part of my job is as a coach. I'm putting a team on the field and you want to formulate how to make the best game out of these players.

You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn't execute properly.

Get the best people and train them well.

What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.

If you believe, as I do, that your employees truly are your most valuable asset, you will do whatever you can to help them do their jobs as well as possible.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I feel good, I feel good. Our training staff, they're the best.

Short of hiring a new staff, consider giving subpar workers a chance to improve. Tell them why they're not measuring up and give them a set amount of time to make specific improvements.

We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.

You've got to play to your players' talents.

As leaders, we've all seen the painful effects of team members not keeping pace with company growth - it's called up-leveling, and it's all too common when a company goes from zero to something to hopefully an IPO.

When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.

You have to take care of your guys. If a guy underperforms, you get rid of him. If a guy overperforms, you take care of him.

If you can help an employee get to that extra level of skill, you have a great executive.

The best way to build the best workforce is to focus on the largest talent pool you have.

Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team

Our most important education system is in the employees' own organization.

I have played a lot games, worked with a lot of these players and learnt an awful lot. I've got the knowledge and leadership qualities. So, its normal that under these circumstances that I got into coaching. I'm learning an awful lot.

Any coach needs talent. You start with talent. Without talent, we're all in the soup.

I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach.

I've always been able to stay focused on trying to recruit good players and trying to develop those players.

We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's hard to think of everything.