Quotes About Leadership

As Cook says, "Developing these experimentation systems is the responsibility of senior management; they have to be put in by the leadership. It's moving leaders from playing Caesar with their thumbs up and down on every idea to—instead—putting in the culture and the systems so that teams can move and innovate at the speed of the experimentation system.

Enable and empower teams to make fast and courageous decisions.

Entrepreneurship is management

The problem for startups and large companies alike is that employees often follow the products they develop as they move from phase to phase. A common practice is for the inventor of a new product or feature to manage the subsequent resources, team, or division that ultimately commercializes it. As a result, strong creative managers wind up getting stuck working on the growth and optimization of products rather than creating new ones.

managers in most companies are already overwhelmed with good ideas. Their challenge lies in prioritization and execution,

In fact, entrepreneurship should be considered a viable career path for innovators inside large organizations.

old management methods are not up to the task. Planning and forecasting

Building a startup is an exercise in institution building; thus, it necessarily involves management. This

if management is the problem, chaos is the answer.

La creación de una startup es un ejercicio de creación de una institución; por lo tanto, requiere management.

Nuestra sociedad necesita más que nunca la creatividad y la visión de los emprendedores.

You're their CO. You have to inspire and command their respect. I'm their drill instructor. I get to be their worst nightmare.

Another vital factor was the development of a leadership style and set of cooperative customs that could allow developers to attract co-developers and get maximum leverage out of the medium.

When leaders reframe customers into guests, and results into experiences, profits escalate.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

Statistically, half of all humans are below median intelligence and easily led astray by the ten percent who combine above average intelligence with a defective sense of ethics.

Well, no programmer could direct Karpov's initiative as a whole. The best ones are like idiot savants: they know their stuff backward and forward, but that's all they're good for. They couldn't direct themselves out of a paper bag." She pursed her lips. "So again, I have to ask, who is running the operation now?

Platão havia chegado a compreender algo que os modernos reformadores e revolucionários políticos são incapazes de compreender: que uma reforma não pode ser realizada por um líder bem intencionado que recrute os seus seguidores entre as mesmas pessoas cuja confusão moral é a fonte da desordem.

enabling that transition was my close friend and colleague Dietmar Harhoff.

A real man's gotta be a hero to his wife before he can be a hero to anybody else- or he ain't a real man.

Who rules here?' I asked. They said: 'The People naturally.' I said: 'Naturally the people but who really rules?