Trust is the essence of Leadership.
COLIN POWELLNone of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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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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If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.
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Get mad, then get over it.
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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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You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
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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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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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Don’t just count your days, make your days count.
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My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.
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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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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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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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