Tony Dungy Quotes

A CEO needs to build their own team.

I need to build my team around my weaknesses.

You can live by biblical principles, and you can teach by those principles and still be a winner. So many coaches think you've got to kick your players in the rear end. You've got to cuss them out. You've got to hit them across the head. No. You don't have to do that.

Some people are really good at the visionary role. They're like third grade teachers who tell people the vision and values over and over and over until they get it right, right, right. But they're not implementers. If they're good leaders, they gather people around them who can take the implementation role and move it forward.

I'm so grateful to Ferguson. I think he's the best there's ever been, especially his squad management skills.

When building a strong team, you need a strong leader.

In Seattle, I've talked about how Pete Carroll is such... I'm kind of surprised at the variety of styles that successful coaches can have. Some are very communicative and positive and energized - like, Pete Carroll has all that in spades. Some of them are more cerebral; some are more directive.

Good leaders make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

Beyond studying, though, I think a coach should mainly have knowledge of football: if you do not know what to say to the players then you are not going anywhere.

Jose Mourinho is a great coach. I would really like to work with him, and I once came close. He knows what weapons to use against teams, and he has won everything.

I've never been a break-you-down, one-on-one guy.

Choosing a system is no longer enough, coaches have to be psychologists and motivational leaders too.

Every manager has his own idea of playing and his own idea of the training, and everyone has a different personality.

Under Pep Guardiola, it's hard work. For me, Guardiola is one of the best coaches I've ever met. He's incredibly clever and tactically really good, and he knows how to speak to us, how to motivate us, and that's what it is like.

I have led a few teams prior to the IPL, led in Mumbai T20 as well as DY Patil T20 tournament.

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

I've run a very successful business, and I think I can also run a very successful team.

Having the ability to relate to people is such an important part of management and leadership.

Galliani is a great leader but can't understand players.

The ability to delegate begins with believing in the potential of people.

I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris [Johnson] cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.

Transformation al leaders pick the right people, match them to the right jobs, achieve mutual clarity on the desired results, and then they get out of the way and leave the individual with maximum freedom to perform.

In order to lead people, you have to get to know them.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.