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As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.

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
You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.
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Image Job Position Yourself
Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
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Advantage Afraid Challenge
You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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Choice Control Yourself
The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
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Best Method Obstacle Team
Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.
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Hold Move Togetherness Trust
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Average Sign Yourself
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
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Determination Dreams Hard Work Magic Reality Sweat
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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Attention Experience Information Intuition Pay Yourself
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
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
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
In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‘we have a problem, let’s go and get it’.
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Disappointment Expectation Failure Greatness Himself Problem Word
One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.
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Care Element Important Leadership Oneself
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
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

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