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When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.

Colin Powell

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
You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
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Ability Let Go Try Yourself
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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Failure Hard Work Inspirational Learning Preparation Result Secret Success
Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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Failure People Success
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
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
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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Love Man Togetherness Yourself
Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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Best Watch Yourself
Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
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Detail Double Leadership Mindset
What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful
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Generation Important Need Success
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
When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
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Animal Dirty End Fight Yourself
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
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Hard Work People Play Serious Work
You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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Curiosity Goodness Leadership People
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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People Responsibility
In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‘we have a problem, let’s go and get it’.
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Disappointment Expectation Failure Greatness Himself Problem Word

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