Fran Tarkenton Quotes

He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

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

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

Leadership contains certain elements of good management, but it requires that you inspire, that you build durable trust. For an organization to be not just good but to win, leadership means evoking participation larger than the job description, commitment deeper than any job contract's wording.

Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they're doing it. That's purpose. And that's the key to achieving something truly transformational.

When I look at a leader, I look at someone who is able to get exceptional performance out of others.

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 one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

Tim Lewis is great, he's a great coordinator.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

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

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

I've got a really great team around me. They're the ones that are in the restaurants on a day to day basis. Anyone that's good can't be stifled in any way. I don't baby people.

As a leader, these attributes - confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense - are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone.

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.

It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.