Directional Leadership Quotes

Leadership (according to John Sculley) revolves around vision, ideas, direction, and has more to do with inspiring people as to direction and goals than with day-to-day implementation. A leader must be able to leverage more than his own capabilities. He must be capable of inspiring other people to do things without actually sitting on top of them with a checklist.

I've worked with a lot of great directors.

I've worked with a lot of directors who really don't have a sense of what the hell they want.

Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction.

Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.

I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.

Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don’t know where you are going, your leadership doesn’t matter.

For me, doing all the TV stuff and having the experience directing, knowing what you want to make is 90% of it. The rest of it is just guiding everybody on that one path. But, figuring out the path is the difficult part.

Effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.