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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.

Colin Powell

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Force Multiply Optimism
Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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Best Watch Yourself
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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Achievement Attitude Development Excellence Yourself
Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Hard Work People Preparation
Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Break Greatness Hard Time Tension Time
Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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Essence Leadership Trust
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
You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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Choice Control Yourself
What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful
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Generation Important Need Success
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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Data Expert Judgement Possession
The greatest gifts my parents gave to me were their unconditional love and a set of values.
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Gift Greatness Love Myself Parents Value
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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Follow Leadership Mission Primary Purpose Role Vision
Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Help Myself People Problem Solve
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
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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Blood Death Expert Judgement Reality World
None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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Change Future Inspirational Ourselves Past

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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