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.
COLIN POWELLIf you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.
More Colin Powell Quotes
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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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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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Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
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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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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
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It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
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One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.
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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
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We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
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Give me the right people and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn’t matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.
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You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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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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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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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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