Learn How to Lead to Win Quotes

“The Towers Fall September 11, 2001, is a day that Americans will never forget. My September 11 moment occurred on September 12 because the Carl Vinson was across the International Dateline and was steaming just south of the southern tip of India conducting flight operations.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“in. Some curious eyes were on me and you can imagine the crew’s reaction. That’s the way I wanted it. I was sending a message. This guy is different. I was the brand new Executive Officer of this nuclear-powered warship.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“I like Bob Proctor’s statement that “a mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“So, nuclear power was just a different way to boil water.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“A ship is not welded steel, fuel, and gunpowder. It is the people who make a ship a ship. People are the most important asset to your ship, company, or organization.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“That stuck with me through the rest of my career. I never would have imagined that such a powerful impact would come from deciding to know the names of the people who work for me.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“Even though there’s only one Skipper, I thought that if I didn’t know them by sight in civilian clothes, then they would feel like I didn’t value them or their work, especially since I asked them to work whenever necessary—no matter the day of the week, holidays, the time, or the impact on their families.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“Maya Angelou made a profound statement, “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“I was having a beer with a buddy at the Naval Air Station Oceana Officers’ Club bar, the scene of many junior officer shenanigans, and for once, I was deadly serious. The question had occurred to me and I asked out loud, “Why is morale important?”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“Making the right decision doesn’t mean you get the desired outcome. Not getting your desired outcome doesn’t mean you made the wrong decision. All decisions involve risk.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“As I walked by, he said, “Night flights always suck when it’s really dark.” I’ll never forget that brief exchange. It was the last one we would ever have.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“It is well known that you don’t mess with a sailor’s food and you don’t mess with their pay or their liberty.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“Frosty’s message to me was clear: “Take care of your crew and your crew will take care of you.” I never forgot that.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“The morning of the first day of liberty, Frosty gathered his squadron together and told them that all twelve squadron Tomcats must be in an “up” status by the end of the liberty period, and that some people wanted to cancel the squadron liberty for the entire in-port period, but he thought they could take liberty for three days and get all the aircraft up in the remaining two days.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“That’s when you need tribal knowledge. Your best weapon for dealing with red tape is your working relationships.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“Lieutenant Commander Mike Manazir, United States Navy, canceled the Blue Angels participation in the 1994 Seattle Sea Fair.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“They never altered the log boom, thus the FAA representative could not approve the aerobatic box.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“The hours were long. I brought a brown bag lunch and ate at my desk.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“A word of caution: High-level skills and competence can give way to pride and arrogance. Keep that in check.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“One of the cornerstones of trust in any organization is competence.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“are actual squadron pilots from VF-51 and other squadrons.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“All of the actors who are wearing the dark aviator shades in the movie”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“It bears noting that the ability to compartmentalize is a necessary skill for a naval aviator as there is real danger if you get distracted operating in that high-octane, high-risk environment.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“Bottom line: If you aspire to be an exceptional leader, you must find a work you love to do, for a cause you care about, with people you enjoy.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“immigrants seeking to cross our borders seeking freedom and opportunity?”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“Some people have the view that Academy Midshipmen are arrogant and think they are privileged over everyone else. I never wanted anyone to say with a sardonic tone, “You’re an Academy graduate, aren’t you?” I never wanted to be that guy.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“I learned an important leadership lesson from this experience. More often than not, the difference between success and failure is found in your belief and daily choice to do what needs to be done to achieve your goal.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“Leadership is not about power, prestige, or privilege. It is about responsibility and service to the vision and values of the organization and its members”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“It’s a paradigm: effective leaders make the best followers because they know what it takes to be a contributing member of a high-performing team.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“The other side of the mentor coin is you being a mentor.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons