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You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.

Colin Powell

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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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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 Problem Word
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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Depression Fall Intensity Leadership Passion Start
If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn’t prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.

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If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn’t prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.
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Decision Execution Faith Ideas Oneself Person Trust
The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.

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The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
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Best Method Obstacle Team
All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.

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All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.
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Influence Life Live Touch Value
When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.

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When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
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Animal Dirty End Fight
Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.

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Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Break Greatness Hard Time Tension Time
You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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Curiosity Goodness Leadership People
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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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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Accomplishment Latest Management Mission Team
First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.

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First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.
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Accomplishment Follow Job Medal Reward Tools Training
It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.

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It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
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Battle Courage Fight Man
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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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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Art Leadership Management Possible Science
Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.

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Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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Failure People Success
Don’t just count your days, make your days count.

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Don’t just count your days, make your days count.
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Count Days
Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.

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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
Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is “no.” That’s not America.

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Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is “no.” That’s not America.
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Country Racism Wrong

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