Lawrence O'Donnell Quotes

I always want to have a personal relationship with everybody that works for me.

As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.

I've decided to lead in a way that takes people with me. It's the approach that I think will stand not only our party but also our state in good stead.

I don’t allow my staff to criticize each other…. Evan Rosalyn … She knows that nothing can make me madder then for her to criticize staff.

Every manager has his own idea of playing and his own idea of the training, and everyone has a different personality.

My brand of leadership, which is very focused on bringing people together, solving problems - it's what I have always tried to do - just had a hard time being as powerfully compelling in the campaign as I think it has been in previous years for other candidates.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

A team takes on the personality of the head coach.

The key to good management is keeping the guys on your team who hate your guts away from the guys who haven't made up their minds.

As a businessman, I learned something that Donald Trump never figured out: It isn't about how many times you yell, 'You're fired,' but instead, how many times you say, 'You're hired.'

Many leaders are tempted to lead like a chess master, striving to control every move, when they should be leading like gardeners, creating and maintaining a viable ecosystem in which the organization operates.

There is a heavy-ego, solitary model of being an elected leader. We've certainly seen that in some other mayors of this city... I have much more of a Movement mentality. It's much more of what I'm steeped in. I don't think it is first and foremost about me. It's about the ideas and the agenda.

I've worked for some amazing leaders, and I've worked for the opposite, and that gave me the perspective of what I knew I never wanted to be, and the perspective of what had lasting, sustainable impact.

If leadership is something that is in-your-face, then that is a different type of leadership.

It's not that I'm a 'Let's hug and be joyful all the time' boss. Or that I don't, quote, 'own my own power.' I just never want to be that big, swingin', rule-by-fear person.

I do not run my band like The Eagles, for sure. I've never had to be heavy handed.

This was how Johan Cruyff worked. He was demanding a lot, but when you got there, and you were in his team, he was an incredible protector. He would push and push you, and then he would protect you. He was a master at handling players. He knew when you needed to be pushed or protected.

When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.

Each member of the team must feel important - everyone must make my life and choices difficult.

This perception that a good captain is someone who beats his chest and roars like a lion and gives big Churchillian speeches, that's just not what leadership is about for me.

I believe we need leaders who actually want to lead everyone.

It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.

Every team has leadership. The leadership is the best players. But there's positive leadership, and there's negative leadership.

Every coach has his own ideas about managing the team and how it plays.