Henry Mintzberg Quotes

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.

Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.

Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.

Leadership is hard to train on.

I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that's not always true the other way around.

If I look myself as a manager, I have lot more to learn.

As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

Exceptional employees don't possess God-given personality traits; they rely on simple, everyday EQ skills that anyone can incorporate into their repertoire.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.

Bad ballplayers make good managers.

Just because you have opposition doesn't make you a great leader.

It's often said that the most important qualities in a chief executive are character and judgment.

I like to think I'll be quite instinctive as a leader.

Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.

But the art of management has not changed. The art of it is still 80 to 90 per cent man-management. It is just a matter of getting the best out of what you have got.

The basic skills of leaders are always the same: be driven by a deeper purpose, be a human being, have a passion for what you do, and it's also about hard work and ethics.

That is good to have a manager who is very clear.

Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.

Galliani is a great leader but can't understand players.

A decent player doesn't automatically make a decent manager, I know that. But I will do everything I possibly can.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.