Quotes about Leadership Dynamics

I've worked alongside some very good directors and some not so good.

It can happen in football that you argue with somebody in training but when you are not even talking on the pitch something has to change.

Empires are built and will crumble; even Genghis Khan did not live forever.

I've often heard blowhard leaders boast, "My outfit is so good, it could function well without me." Hmm, then why do they need you?

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Sometimes it looks like the board and the chairman are the worst enemy of the manager and the coaching staff, the football versus the financial side.

Steve Blake is a great vet, but when I'm sitting behind him it's just like, c'mon, guys.'

You have to figure out that balance between younger players and veteran players, star players, and All-Star players, really a team effort. And then you have to be lucky.

If you're a speech writer for a president, you don't really see all that much of him because there's so many layers between you and him. But with a vice president, it's different.

If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.

As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay.

We have more coaches on the sidelines than we have players on the field.

Wait. You work for me? I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

I order to be in charge, you need someone to be in charge of.

I don't think there should even be a president, man. I think we should have total democracy.

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my job to what's best for Death Row

A church that lives by power dies by power.

We wait by the door for him to notice us and I think how wonderful it must be to be a man and put your initial on a command and know that at once, such a thing is done. I would send out commands all day just for the pleasure of it.