You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
COLIN POWELLThe most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.
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Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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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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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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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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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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The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.
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It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
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Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.
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Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
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Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
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Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
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Get mad, then get over it.
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