Paul DePodesta Quotes

If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.

I don't care what sport you're talking about. What you see with great franchises is structure - a structure that doesn't just take you from year to year, but day to day.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

I certainly don't understand Fox's decision-making process.

Look first at management. That's the key to a company.

I'm surprised sometimes at the responsibilities you have as a director.

If a better player comes along, I will try to persuade the club to get him in. Sometimes, you can do your business and all of a sudden something appears that you never expected to appear.

Managers can make themselves look strong by selling or dropping players, but if the move doesn't work, the choice looks flawed.

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.

When you're a general manager, you don't get to see every single player, so you have to rely on your scouts.

I'm a good special teams coach, and I can recruit.

The execution of strategy is over to the captain and coach, as it always has been. It's the right way to go. We need clear role allocations, the coach and the captain go and execute and my job is to plan for the future.

The chairman is the man who manages everything and, in the end, takes all the decisions. Always, for the fans, it's important to hear him.

I'm not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.

I've tried so far to learn as much as possible. I think I've got a good grasp of what a hockey GM needs to do.

You make smart, educated decisions that are best for your football team.

Using the ‘military decision-making process’ is extremely valuable when making policy decisions.

Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.

It's the business that you guys are in too. We try to get as much information as we can and make the best decisions that we can for the football team.

With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.