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Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.

Colin Powell

An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.
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Difficult Face Organization People
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
Get mad, then get over it.
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Let Go Mad One Liner
Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Help Myself People Problem Solve
Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
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Kindness Necessary Need 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
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Force Multiply Optimism
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
But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
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Arrival Compromise Constitution Country Start Writing Yourself
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
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Born Errors Experience Leadership Learning
Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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Essence Leadership Trust
Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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Age Bad Improvement News Wine
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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People Responsibility
The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
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Command Evidence Prove Right Wrong
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Average Sign Yourself
There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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Important Organization Person Value Worth

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