Douglas Conant Quotes

You can learn more about leadership by reading about Lincoln than you can from most business books.

Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

I think in any organization you want your manager to have a strong opinion. You don't want them to just say, 'Yes, sir' to things they don't believe in.

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

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

To be an objective leader means aligning your models with the needs of the organization. There is no question anymore that collaboration, seeking out diverse perspectives and developing new ways to look at challenges and opportunities, is a key leadership competency.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

I like to think I'll be quite instinctive as a leader.

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.

Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.

As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

I’m an executive now. I have to be a bigger leader, more responsible leader, more careful about how I say things….

I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.