team management quotes

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn’t lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn’t a question of their ability – it was a question of their ability to listen.

Be the chief but never the lord.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

I don’t want a brat on my team.