Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
COLIN POWELLYou don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
More Colin Powell Quotes
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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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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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You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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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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Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.
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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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Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
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You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.
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Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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Pissing people off doesn’t mean you’re doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.
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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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