John Mott Quotes

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

Coaching was something I've never had much interest in. I've always been a big-picture guy, like a manager has to be.

I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.

Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.

I've always found when I was captain when other people were doing the talking for me, I didn't need to say as much, and when I did say one or two things, people tended to listen all the more.

What makes a leader is to recognize what can be done and not only what is desirable.

Survival is not the only goal of a great leader.

Management is different from leadership..

I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.

Empowering, cultivating, and ultimately serving those who follow you will unlock massive potential within your organization, allowing you to solve for problems in real time.

The key to being a good manager or a good entrepreneur is to pick the right people. Pick the right people, and they'll make you look good.

A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.

I only worked with Rafa Benitez for a short time, but he's a great manager, and he showed it from the first moment he came. He worked with the players and made us a better team. He's a good person, always trying to help players out.

A leader who is self-aware enough to know that he or she is not adept at everything is one who has taken the first step toward being a great leader.

I would like to be known as a great leader, not as a great woman leader.

I learn so much from Sean McVay every single day that I'm around him.

There's no shortcut to being a manager or coach.