Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well.
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.
Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
Empowering those around you to be heard and valued makes the difference between a leader who simply instructs and one who inspires.
The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.
My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.
Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration.
The best way to find a balance between doing your best and showing that you're ready for more is by developing other people. As tempting as it is to hoard knowledge, don't. Instead, make certain that there are others who know how to do important aspects of your job.
Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
Leadership isn't making all the decisions. It is making sure the right decisions are made.
The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.
Producing major change in an organization is not just about signing up one charismatic leader. You need a group - a team - to be able to drive the change. One person, even a terrific charismatic leader, is never strong enough to make all this happen.
The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.
Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team.
Strong leaders equal strong organizations.
Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.
I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
If you can inculcate in your team that every moment means everything, you can then step back to let them lead.
If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader.
Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.
Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment.
