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What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful

Colin Powell

Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
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Kindness Necessary Need Yourself
Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.
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Goodness Leadership Move Success
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
Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
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Clothes Himself Organization Rebel Tolerance
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
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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People Perspective Right Yourself
I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren’t high.
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Goodness High Myself Organization Standard
Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Help Myself People Problem Solve
None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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Change Future Inspirational Ourselves Past
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
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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Attitude Leadership Role Thinking Win
Get mad, then get over it.
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Let Go Mad One Liner
An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.
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Difficult Face Organization People
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
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
Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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Age Bad Improvement News Wine

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