Ronald Reagan Quotes

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.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

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.

I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.

Leadership and partnership go together.

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.

A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.

Just because you're the coach, you don't automatically have the authority. You have to work the people. You have to gain the trust of the people.

I think at some point you have to empower others and really allow everyone else to do what they're hired to do and what they're brought onto the team to do.

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

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.

Leadership is influence.

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

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.

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.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

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

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

When you're leading, don't talk.

I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.