Jerry Reinsdorf Quotes

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

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

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.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

Leadership involves persuasion, and conciliation, and education and patience. It's long, slow, tough work. That is the only kind of leadership I know or will believe in, or will practice.

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.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

In a team, you need players who are technically good and can perform under pressure.

I think the best thing a team can have is different leaders.

A great team relies on its leaders and they have to make a difference at key moments.

I can lead my team.

Part of being a successful leader is listening and looking for opportunities to bring people together.

Good teams understand how to compete, how to practice the right way.

It's an interesting juxtaposition, being student body president and leading others and learning how to effectively help people on the team in a way that's not as direct.

You have to lead by example. You have to be the calmest person in the room. You have to be very open. I think the qualities of a director are to enable and to find the best in everybody.

The bottom line is the best way to lead is to play well.

My role is just be a leader on the court, be a team player, and that's what I am.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

I believe I have demonstrated the ability to coach and work well under pressure.

We need to find ways to grow as a team and get better to be the best team possible.

It's about what the players are doing. My job is facilitate that. My job is to put them in positions to succeed. My job is to listen to their ideas, take them if they're good, quietly push them to the side if they're not. My job is to help them grow.

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

I don't think I am that hands-on. I'm much more of a believer in finding a great team of people and trusting them to follow their instincts. They work better when they feel they have freedom and they are trusted.