Kathy Giusti Quotes

Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

You make sure to set True Norths for your company. You can't be involved in every decision and every meeting; you have to make sure the mission is very built into the culture, the product, and how you communicate.

I need time, but as soon as possible, we are going to try to create team spirit. That is the most important thing. After that, you can create tactics, but we have to create something special with ourselves.

What I found over the years is the most important thing is for a team to come together over a compelling vision, a comprehensive strategy for achieving that vision, and then a relentless implementation plan.

As a head coach you need a strong leadership group behind you and that is exactly what we have with Stuart Webber and our board, we know exactly what direction we want to head and what is possible.

As a manager, you need to have your own vision and what you want to do with the team.

I love managing characters. Characters make teams and I believe I can deal with all sorts. The most important thing is being able to pass my knowledge on to others and allowing them to flourish as individuals and as part of a team with a specific strategy.

The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.

You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

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.

People say the most important thing is building a world-class team.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business.

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

You have to be able to communicate the vision to the people in your organization so that they know where and how they should direct themselves on a day-to-day basis.