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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.
The polished executive is ultimately the happy executive who can walk gracefully through life.
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.
The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.
The best employees are those who bring real energy and initiative to the job. I like to know whether you're the kind of person who can set priorities, take initiative, and drive results right from the beginning.
In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions.
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.