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.
COLIN POWELLLeaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
More Colin Powell Quotes
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I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
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Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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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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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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Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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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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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 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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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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Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
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We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep us together to make this a better country – to reach down and back to touch every young person in need!
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As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
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One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.
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Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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