Colin Powell Quotes About Leadership
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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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The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
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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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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
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It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.
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Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
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You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
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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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Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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