Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Colin PowellTags: ego
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Colin PowellIf you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.
Colin PowellTrying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
Colin PowellGreat leaders are almost always great simplifiers.
Colin PowellThe ties that bind us are stronger than the occasional stresses that separate us.
Colin PowellNo matter how significant or life-changing your greatest hit or miss might be, neither even begins to define who you are. Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people. To cite calculus, we are the area under the curve.
Colin PowellThe day you are not solving problems or are not up to your butt in problems is probably a day you are no longer leading. If your desk is clean and no one is bringing you problems, you should be very worried. It means that people don't think you can solve them or don't want to hear about them. Or, far worse, it means they don't think you care.
Colin PowellTags: leadership
Freedom to be your best means nothing unless you are wiling to do your best.
Colin PowellLeadership 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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