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You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.

Colin Powell

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
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Born Errors Experience Leadership Learning
In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‘we have a problem, let’s go and get it’.
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Disappointment Expectation Failure Greatness Himself Problem Word
I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren’t high.
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Goodness High Myself Organization Standard
There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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Important Organization Person Value Worth
The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
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Best Freedom Willing Yourself
Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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Best Watch Yourself
Give me the right people and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn’t matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.
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Care Goodness Organization People Right Yourself
Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Break Greatness Hard Time Tension Time
If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.
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Depression Fall Intensity Leadership Passion Start Yourself
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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Attitude Leadership Role Thinking Win
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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Capability Intention Myself Presentation Regret Weapon Wrong
One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.
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Development Greatness Oneself Recognition Talent
Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.
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Hold Move Togetherness Trust
Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.
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Love Man Togetherness Yourself
Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.
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Accomplishment Latest Management Mission Team
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
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Day Leadership Problem Soldier Yourself

You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.

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