Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.

The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.

I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that.

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

I'm here to help make sure that the people who do things well at DC are set up to do them as well, and even better, in the future.

I believe in the difference that a man or woman can make at the top of an organisation. Once you have a really good guy in place at the top, the next most important thing is continuity of management as opposed to a revolving door.

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

We're so used to thinking in the short term, and the minute you speak in more long-term language then you tend to get dismissed as utopian and so on. We have a real problem here in making long-term thinking respectable

I think in terms of 20-year horizons.

It's always better if you have one manager for a long period because then you can build the team.

An entrepreneur never thinks of quarter-on-quarter; he thinks for 25 years, 50 years.

To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.

Leaders learn to leverage the problems that never go away in a way to create progress for the organization.

Business strategy is the battleplan for a better future.

There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it.

If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.

Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.

Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives.

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

Grow a leader-grow the organization. A company cannot grow without until its leaders grow within.

Vision rarely require immediate action. It requires patience.

I would love to be a corporate leader.

At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.