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One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.

Colin Powell

Maybe we don’t put our young people in situations often enough where they’re allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don’t fail as often.
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Allow Enough Experience Failure People Situation Young Yourself
Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.
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Hold Move Togetherness Trust
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
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Hard Work People Play Serious Work
If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn’t prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.
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Decision Execution Faith Ideas Oneself Person Trust
Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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Essence Leadership Trust
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
Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
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Advice Counseling Fear Voice 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
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Average Sign Yourself
The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
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Best Freedom Willing Yourself
The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.
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Follow Forever Important Learning Personal Soldier
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
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Focus Future Mirror Review
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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People Responsibility
First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.
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Accomplishment Follow Job Medal Reward Tools Training Yourself
Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.
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Ego Position Yourself
You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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Spirit Tragedy Yourself

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