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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.

Colin Powell

Be careful what you choose: You may get it.
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Care Choice Yourself
Pissing people off doesn’t mean you’re doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.
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People Perspective Right Yourself
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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Balance Criticism Drive Ego Intelligence Judgement Loyalty
Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.
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Goodness Leadership Move Success
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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Choice Friendship Himself Mirror Reflection
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
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Focus Future Mirror Review
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Attitude Excellence Prevail
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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Best Connection Creation Job Resources Team Training Way Yourself
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
Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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Age Bad Improvement News Wine
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 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
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 can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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Spirit Tragedy Yourself
If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.
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Dirty End Tools Yourself
There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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Important Organization Person Value Worth

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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