Martin Lawrence Quotes

People like to be consulted.

There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people in their offices, find out what's on their minds.

We need to engage rather than educate people.

Don’t talk to the people until you’ve listened to the people.

Leadership contains certain elements of good management, but it requires that you inspire, that you build durable trust. For an organization to be not just good but to win, leadership means evoking participation larger than the job description, commitment deeper than any job contract's wording.

I've learned that it's important to listen to employees at all levels, to engage them, to empower them. Whether you're a first-line supervisor or the head of an entire agency, you should be asking career staffers, 'What do you think?'

Each member of the team must feel important - everyone must make my life and choices difficult.

When people feel accountable and included, it is more fun.

At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.

Leaders need to remember that the point of leading is not to cross the finish line first. It's to take people across the finish line with you. For that reason, leaders must deliberately slow their pace, stay connected to their people, enlist others to help fulfill the vision, and keep people going. You can't do that if you're running too far ahead of your people.

People get very creative if you include them.

I think also, obviously, having someone like Lucas [Goodman], and the people around me are very, not gender-driven or any of that, so when we come in as thing, that's what it is. You can work with us or not work with us and I think that has been helpful. I don't try to put myself in a vulnerable position in that way. I won't just sit quietly.

Our team at Duolingo is really cohesive, but this did not just happen. I made a concerted effort to hire people who are going to play nice.

The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.

I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.

Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

I think in any situation, so much of effective leadership is when it comes from your own personality. And I feel very fortunate to be comfortable in the Colts locker room, where people can be who they are, and they don't have to change it when they show up to work that day.

I think that I am willing to do anything. I like to collaborate. If my voice will be heard, than I will do some research and think about it.

It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.

You just see a good project and want to be involved in it, and that's what 'Dexter' was.

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals.

So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.