Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
COLIN POWELLEvery organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
More Colin Powell Quotes
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Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.
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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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You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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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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When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
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Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
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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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The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
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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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Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
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Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren’t high.
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