Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
COLIN POWELLRespect for leaders by followers can’t be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.
More Colin Powell Quotes
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You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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It is not the role of the United States to dictate change, but to enter into discussions with our friends.
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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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As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
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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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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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All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.
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There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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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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The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
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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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Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.
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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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If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.
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Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life’s cycle and it’s from failure that you gain life experience.
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Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.
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Respect for leaders by followers can’t be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.
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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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A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
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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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One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.
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Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
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