Mark V. Hurd Quotes

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

As a leader, your job is to share your vision with your followers and either warn them of danger or highlight opportunities coming in the future.

Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you.

The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It's all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person, then you give that person the freedom, the authority, the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Leadership is influence.

Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.

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

To be a good leader, you have to be a good communicator. As a leader, you have to communicate your intent every chance you get, and if you fail to do that, you will pay the consequences.

When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

A manager has to have all different sides covered.

As a manager, you need to have your own vision and what you want to do with the team.

Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help your team improve.

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

Leadership and management are not synonymous.

I try to help people with management stuff a lot.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

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

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

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.