Quotes on Team Leader

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Team leaders have to connect with their team and themselves. If they don't know their team's strengths and weaknesses, they cannot hand off responsibilities to the team. And if they don't know their own strengths and weaknesses, they will not hand off responsibilities to the team.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.