Lynn Good Quotes

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

If you are going to lead people, you have to know where they are going.

Leaders create a sense of urgency. And along with that you have to create a sense of hope and a direction.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

Leadership is about stepping up when it's the appropriate time and then making sure everyone knows that we're all on the same page.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.

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

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

You've got to have a vision. You've got to have a message.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

Leadership—not salesmanship

If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.