William Feather Quotes

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

When you give your team five innings, you don't really feel good about five innings.

As far as I'm concerned, I enjoy what I do, I enjoy the competition, working with a group of people to get the best out of them.

Our success multiplies each time we lead someone else to success.

If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.

The leader's job is to lead and protect. Not have all the answers, not know everything to do, not to micromanage and tell people what to do or how to do it. A leader's job is to lead and protect. That's their job, and it's the people within the organization - their job is to get the work done.

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

I'm not in charge of making moves, you know. I'm in charge of coaching.

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job.

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.'

There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit … Be in the first group; there is less competition there.

The most important thing I've done at work has been to surround myself with amazing people who I trust and empower fully to do stuff better than I could.

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.

I'm the type of manager who doesn't really like the word 'manage.' Nor do I really like the word 'boss.' I like to look at myself as more as a leader.