Joseph S. Clark Quotes

There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.

It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.

Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.

Good captains know the strengths and weaknesses of their teams and make decisions accordingly.

When you're a leader and a manager, you have to make decisions which are right for your group to achieve the primary objective. Sometimes those decisions will be criticised.

What I found over the years is the most important thing is for a team to come together over a compelling vision, a comprehensive strategy for achieving that vision, and then a relentless implementation plan.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

The smartest thing a director can do is surround himself with really good people.

Leadership is influence.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.