Thomas Kail Quotes

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

If the vision is not right and if the right group of players is not together, it doesn't come together.

If the chief executive cannot have a party background, how can she ensure her team is wholeheartedly united?

The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

Especially in today's age, when you're in the huddle with guys from all different backgrounds and all different ages, you have to be able to lead, get everybody on the same page, and do what it takes to win.

My job as a director is to communicate, and I want to communicate to all.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

You need to have discussions and make sure you guide players towards the collective spirit. It can't be done overnight.

My aim is to get the team to work hard and stay strong together.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

You move an organization when they understand where you want them to go.

Leadership involves building an esprit de corps, the creation of a sense of purpose in pursuit of noble and clear objectives.

Leadership is about stepping up when it's the appropriate time and then making sure everyone knows that we're all on the same page.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

To get things done, you have to get people together.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

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

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.