Quotes About Leadership

Effective delegation depends on the ability of others to make decisions. Some people can make decisions, others cannot. It just doesn't work if you are congenitally hesitant and allow things to linger in a state of suspension.

There is also the question of when you should make a decision. There are probably only two times to do so - too early and too late. If I was going to err on making one of those mistakes, I far preferred to make the decision earlier rather than later. That's much easier to say than to do.

Anyone who aspires to be a great leader needs to excel at selling his ideas and aspira tions to others. Sometimes you have to persuade people to do things they don't want to do, or to sell them on the idea that they can achieve something they had not dreamed about.

Whenever you show up in a new role, it will not be long before you have to face trouble and a clash over something. There is nothing to be gained by stirring it up yourself. Trouble will find you quick enough.

After anyone retires from a position of responsibility and remains associated with the same organisation, it is unfair to your successor to try and retain the authority you once possessed. You have to let go and let the new man and the new regime do what they think is best.

a vast gulf separates a great leader from a very good manager.

a vast gulf separates a great leader from a very good manager. Accomplished and skilful managers can be hired by the truckload. Leaders are the rarest of commodities. So, here is what I learned about the character of one leader–the man who used to wear a jacket bearing the initials 'AF'.

These are exceptional examples. On the whole it is better to explain to the people around you that you care about little details, but that it's their job to attend to them.

Saber lo que es posible, establecer unas expectativas realistas y comunicarlas con la suficiente claridad para que tu equipo te siga, en especial en un entorno en el que todo el mundo quiere resultados inmediatos, es una de las aptitudes para el liderazgo más difíciles de conseguir.

Los mejores jefes también se enorgullecen de que los empleados que hayan trabajado bien y quieran irse, lo hagan a puestos mejores y más importantes.

the best leaders tend to be missionaries rather than mercenaries.

The great leader knows that most success comes from making a few large decisions correctly rather than trying to be involved in making lots of small choices.

When he eventually retires, his organisation will be little different from the one he inherited. It will definitely not have achieved anything remarkable.

I want to apologise for my behaviour in my last year at United.

Hay que disponer a todo el mundo para el éxito, lo que requiere una profunda reflexión. Resulta muy fácil crear expectativas poco realistas, es algo que aprendí muy pronto en mi carrera.

Todo eso implica que los equipos de alto nivel están en continuo estado de evolución, y pobre del mánager que crea que algunos jugadores pueden durar para siempre. Mi

The one thing I could never allow was loss of control, because control was my only saviour.

when you're managing change, you have to accept the quieter spells and acknowledge that transformations take longer than a year.

The thing every good leader should have is an instinct.

I couldn't take sides against mu players. I had to find solutions other than castigating them in public. Sometimes I had to fine or punish them, of course, but I could never let it out of the dressing room. I would have felt I had betrayed the one constant principle of my time as a manager: to defend. No, not to defend, but to protect them from outside judgments.

I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.

Even in my time, we knew that men were not in charge. Oh, they might bluster as if they were. But when it came down to it, we women bore much of the influence. Often, my father would make some grand pronouncement in the evening. And the next morning, he had changed his mind. After a while, I realized that it was my mother who had changed it, quietly, in the night.

His only realistic hope of survival was to order his own artillery to fire on his positions to stall the German attack. Some of his own men might be killed, but "pulling the chain," as it was called, was his only option.

Indeed, good leaders were often good actors, able to convince their men if not themselves that they would somehow prevail.