Jack Welch Quotes

The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.

Part of my job being a leader and captain of the team is not just to play well and lead well but find a way to make everybody around me better.

I want to be known as someone who develops individuals, not just companies.

As always I am focused on training and coaching my team.

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

I am often asked if leaders are born or made. The answer, of course, is both. Some characteristics, like IQ and energy, seem to come with the package. On the other hand, you learn some leadership skills, like self-confidence, at your mother's knee, and at school, in academics and sports. And you learn others at work-trying something, getting it wrong and learning from it, or getting it right and gaining the self-confidence to do it again, only better.

I'm trying to coach the team and that's what I want to do.

Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others.

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they're born. Every leader I know who's been highly effective has worked hard at it, and they've been students of it. The more you're a student of leadership, the more you figure out what works for you and the more effective you're going to be.

The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.

You always want to improve, learn from the veterans on the team.

The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams.

As with any skill, you have to work at leadership. Watch how the best do it, review what you've done, and look at what you might do.

What I didn't appreciate about myself is that I'm good at coaching leaders.

Obviously, as a manager, you decide the set-up of the team, who's playing, but when it comes to doing the things I want, I have principles, but I also want to leave it open for the players to find their own solutions. At the end of the day, it's also about the individual.

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

I always keep busy it gives you an opportunity to go through your coaching methods, your files, to see how other managers are working and re-educate yourself.