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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.

Colin Powell

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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Accomplishment Latest Management Mission Team
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
Don’t just count your days, make your days count.
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Count Days Yourself
Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
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Opportunity Optimistic 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
Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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Best Watch Yourself
Get mad, then get over it.
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Let Go Mad One Liner
Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
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Core Execution Leadership Value Yourself
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Average Sign Yourself
Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Hard Work People Preparation
Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is “no.” That’s not America.
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Country Racism Wrong
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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Data Expert Judgement Possession
We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.
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Art Leadership Management Possible Science
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
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.
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Balance Criticism Drive Ego Intelligence Judgement Loyalty
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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People Responsibility

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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