If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.
Steve CaseRead
And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The essence of effective management lies in prioritizing people and exemplifying strong leadership.
Steve Case emphasizes that successful management is fundamentally centered around understanding and valuing people. His experience over decades has taught him that authentic leadership and nurturing relationships are the cornerstone of an organization's success.
Themes
LeadershipManagementPeopleRelationshipsSuccess
In practice
Example use cases
During a leadership seminar to discuss effective management strategies.
More from Steve Case
All quotes →I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards or newspapers door-to-door or just vending machine kind of thing is.. there's just something very intriguing to me about that.
Steve CaseRead
You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
Steve CaseRead
But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen
Steve CaseRead
If you believe that some day it's going to happen, some day it probably will happen. You just have to make sure you're there when it's happening, and ideally you're at the front of the parade, and the principle beneficiary of when it happens.
Steve CaseRead
Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind
Steve CaseRead
Similar quotes
Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
Margaret J. WheatleyRead
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
TacitusRead
Choose the best player for every position, and you'll end up not with a strong XI, but with 11 strong 1's.
Johan CruijffRead
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew CarnegieRead
Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you.
Andy StanleyRead
Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
Margaret ThatcherRead