Vivek Wadhwa Quotes

You can inspire people to give you greatness, or you can micro-manage them into your own one specific kernel of an idea. To me, I think that when you inspire people to give their best, then you're going to get the best result.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

The best ideas start as conversations.

Organizations that can diminish fear are those that are able to motivate, create, and innovate.

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

Just imagine how fast, innovative and excellent your business will be once every single teammate - from the janitor to the executive - begins to see themselves as the CEO of their own area of responsibility.

A good head has one hundred hands.

The big thing for me is to motivate people, even globally.

The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.

Accept your teammates for what they are and inspire them to become all they can be.

It all starts with a great idea and teamwork.

It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.

Having colleagues nearby, whether at the beach or in a crypt, means the ideas are always flowing

I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

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.

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.

Leadership is influence.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

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.