Quotes about Leadership Dynamics

Of course, I'm not often the top dog, but sometimes it's better not to be top dog, because you last longer. If a movie or play flops, you always blame the lead. They say, 'He couldn't carry it.' They always blame him. But they rarely blame the second or third banana.

It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

I don't think I ever had any relationship with any showrunner, over time, with whom I didn't have conflict.

Good institutions cannot usually be imposed from above: that way they are oxymorons.

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

Eddie, what do we care about people like him? We're driving an express, and they're riding on the roof, making a lot of noise about being leaders. Why should we care? We have enough power to carry them along – haven't we?

I'm the President, but he's The Boss.

Goddamn it, Rahm, slow down—your ass is in my face!

That's the damn thing about falling in love with your second-in-command," and resumed his stride up to the balcony with its row of arched doors, Starhawk unsmiling at his heels. "They are with you too long and they know you too well.

When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for solutions.

He laughed at that, which was good. I needed him to understand who was in charge, but didn't want to beat him down too hard. His goodwill, his naïve sense of fairness, was a potential asset, and not something to toss away needlessly.

there are no bad guys, any more than there are good guys. There are only smart people, and stupid ones; puppets, and puppet masters

Tell me, Bruce, what's it like to be second? Never the captain. Always the lieutenant.

The leader of another crack gang once told Venkatesh that he could easily afford to pay his foot soldiers more, but it wouldn't be prudent. "You got all these niggers below you who want your job, you dig?" he said. "So, you know, you try to take care of them, but you know, you also have to show them you the boss. You always have to get yours first, or else you really ain't no leader. If you start taking losses, they see you as weak and shit.

You can have successful teams where people hate but deeply respect each other; the opposite (love but not respect among team members) is a recipe for disaster.

When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

Who cares if you are prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?

El liderazgo tiene dos maneras extremas de ejercer su poder: inspirando miedo o inspirando afecto.

The people count for nothing in revolutions, or at most count only as a passive instrument.

We don't want to play with you, Spottedkit. You're always telling us what to do!

Denn nicht darauf kommt es an, daß eine neue politische oder soziale Schicht die Macht ergreift, sondern darauf, daß ein neues, allen großen historischen Gestalten ebenbürtiges Menschentum den Machtraum sinnvoll erfüllt.

She'd worried at the beginning when she first met them that there were too many patrones. But within weeks she was sure that there was really one boss, and that the other three were working for her.

If you have to remind people you're the boss, I don't think you're going to be a very effective leader.