Jim Cantalupo Quotes

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

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

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best.

First of all, you've got to have a vision of 'What kind of program do I want to have?' Then you've got to have a plan to implement it. Then you've got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.

Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.

To scale your business, you need to delegate responsibilities to others and establish a strong company culture.

I just need to direct traffic, get everyone lined up, in and out of the huddle and make sure everything is crisp so that everyone is on the same page.

What I've learned running Pixar applies to all businesses.

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

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

I believe in having total clarity around our goals. I believe in creating these goals together as a group and making sure they're aligned with Bob Iger's goals for the Walt Disney Co. And more than anything, making sure people understand that they have a responsibility to one another.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding 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.

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.