Future Leaders

Leadership is the art

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower

What we do wrong

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What we do wrong with teenagers is we talk down to you instead of treating you as equals. Adults complain that you’re not good listeners but really, adults are not listening to what you’re trying to tell us. We’re always trying to give you advice. We should treat you with lots of respect and dignity … Read more

The day soldiers stop

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The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. Colin Powell

Leadership is solving problems.

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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. Colin Powell

Leadership is understanding people

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Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure. Arleigh Burke

An election marks the

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An election marks the end of the affair; it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words, fulsome promises. We wind up married, but to whom, to what? We cannot always predict with certainty the future leader from the winning candidate. Some men grow in the job; others are diminished … Read more