Experts often possess more data than judgment.
COLIN POWELLThe best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
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Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.
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Be careful what you choose: You may get it.
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Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
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Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
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The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.
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One of the fondest expressions around is that we can’t be the world’s policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.
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Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
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Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.
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Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
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I regret that the presentation I made at the UN turned out to be wrong. It was wrong on the stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but pretty much right on intentions and capabilities.
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We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.
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As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
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