The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
COLIN POWELLThe 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.
More Colin Powell Quotes
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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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You can’t get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.
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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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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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I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren’t high.
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Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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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 honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
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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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Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.
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My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.
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We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
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A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.
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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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