leadership alignment Quotes

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

We think the ownership culture is very important, so we like to invest in businesses whose leaders are also owners.

People have accused me of only working with good companies. No I don't. I work with some very dysfunctional companies or unbelievably dysfunctional organizations. The people that bring me in know what they're doing won't work for the future. They know they want to change and they want to change for the right reasons. They believe what I believe and that's why they called me.

I believe in having total clarity around our goals. I believe in creating these goals together as a group and making sure they're aligned with Bob Iger's goals for the Walt Disney Co. And more than anything, making sure people understand that they have a responsibility to one another.

No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting

Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.

You have to create circumstances where your first-tier leader knows what you are trying to accomplish, because he is the one who's going to get it done.