Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
COLIN POWELLOne important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.
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Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
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The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
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Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
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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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The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
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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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We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
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Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
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Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.
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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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A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
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It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them.
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Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Maybe we don’t put our young people in situations often enough where they’re allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don’t fail as often.
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You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.
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Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
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The greatest gifts my parents gave to me were their unconditional love and a set of values.
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You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.
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