Quotes About Leadership

There's nothing more comforting for a team than to know when you need someone to make a play, you have someone who is going to do it when it matters most.

MindTree has grown into a strong company and has a great leadership team at its helm which can continue to propel the company in the future.

When I am there at our global product development centers, I am meeting with the design team and reviewing design work being done there and meeting with engineers responsible for work being done specific to that region, meeting with purchasing team.

If I believed in it, and it wasn't productive for the team, I wouldn't do it.

How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you've got and the kind of team we've got.

You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

If I come in, and you're an employer, and I say, 'Well, I was a sniper in the Marine Corps. Do you have any sniper positions open?' 'No.' But if I told you that I was good at communication, good at leadership under stressful environments, team management, personnel management, leadership, being prompt, are stuff that I can bring to the table.

Nobody on Earth does a project by himself. So you have to make sure your team is intact.

It's an immense pride for me to be captain of the national team.

I haven't seen a single institution in the corporate world operating smoothly without a HR team.

Am I here because of my last name? To a degree. But I would ask people to judge me and my executive team on what we accomplish.

In my team, I don't want selfish players. I prefer to lose a game than have selfish players. I don't want that in my club. Never.

To be a point guard, to run the team and have the ball in my hands and try to make plays for others - that's who I am.

A football team is really just a reflection of society. You've got 118, 120 guys on the team, you got a little bit of everything.

Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.

I don't want a brat on my team.

If you don't have a VP Finance on your team reporting to you, do yourself, your team, and your investors a favor and go hire one right now.

In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the 'other' party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency.

When I arrived at Juventus as the manager in 1999, Antonio Conte was the captain of the club, an Italy international, and a player who had a lot of influence in the dressing room - and when I needed a leader in the team, he was the obvious choice.

The team only goes as far as their quarterback takes them.

Everybody on my team - I couldn't do their jobs. I could not. I really mean that. So I figured out early on that the way you're successful is you hire really successful people.

I think if I wasn't a musician, I would be a high-school band director or orchestra director. I like working with large groups of musicians and bringing out the dynamics and accomplishing something as a team.

Coaches have told me I can help the team much more if I don't talk, if I don't moan.

Launching a start-up, you need to get a lot done quickly. Every day is different. Everyone pitches in with everything. It's easy for the founding team to say, 'We're flexible. We all help out with everything!' But when it comes to making decisions - that flexibility can spell inefficiency and disaster.