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Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.

Colin Powell

Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Break Greatness Hard Time Tension Time
One of the fondest expressions around is that we can’t be the world’s policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.
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Expression Need Policemen World
The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
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Best Freedom Willing Yourself
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
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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Deal Experience Failure Learning Life Yourself
As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
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Communication Leadership Team Vision Yourself
We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
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Children Failure Imitation Ourselves
You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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Curiosity Goodness Leadership People
Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Help Myself People Problem Solve
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
Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered.
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Job Leadership Motivational Organization People Planning Strategy
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
Be careful what you choose: You may get it.
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Care Choice Yourself
When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
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Animal Dirty End Fight Yourself
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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Important Influence Life Live Touch Value
Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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Essence Leadership Trust

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