Today, we should look for people with great organizational skills to run a government - not just leaders, who are good with people.
Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Since the earliest days of Eventbrite, we've made our people core to our mission. Our culture is an ever-evolving manifestation of those on our team. As people join, we believe in earning their trust by demonstrating we'll embrace them and help them grow.
Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.
Brazil's always had great players, both at home and abroad, but we need to put all that talent together and mould a team out of it.
It's part of the beauty of the job in dealing with this is you have to have a plan, and that's why you can't only train 11 players; you train your whole team.
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
Creating a billion-dollar company is hard, but being a truly great leader is even harder.
I've coached grassroots for eight years, I coached middle school, and I coached high school.
I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn't seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
As for Seattle, we are rebuilding - no doubt about it. And in the WNBA, it's not easy to rebuild. You can't dangle millions in front of quality free agents.
You've got to turn over every stone; you've got to look for every advantage. You need to make sure you're doing everything you possibly can, not just on the field but off it, to give your team an advantage - from having a sleep expert coming to talk to your team to having an independent analysis of your team done.
Money has never won anything. You can spend as much as you want, but you must build a team first.
I’m an executive now. I have to be a bigger leader, more responsible leader, more careful about how I say things….
I don't care what sport you're talking about. What you see with great franchises is structure - a structure that doesn't just take you from year to year, but day to day.
You cannot compare Pep to any Brazilian coach. If you put all Brazilian coaches together, you would get Pep. One has motivational skills, another is tactically strong. But Pep has it all.
It's good to have young players around you.
At the end of the day, Coach Belichick does a great job of bringing in people he knows that will fit well.
Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.
A most highly multiplying trait in point of far-reaching influences is that of ability to discover and use strong men. This trait stands out impressively in Rothschild's 'Lincoln, Master of Men'.
Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.
Your dream, when you buy a sports franchise, is to win the championship, the Super Bowl.
