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I encouraged all my subordinate commanders and staff to feel free to argue with me. My guidance was simple: “Disagree with me, do it with feeling, try to convince me you are right and I am about to go down the wrong path. You owe that to me; that’s why you are here. But don’t be intimidated when I argue back.
Colin Powell • It Worked for Me
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
“I can make a decision with 30 percent of the information,” said former secretary of state Colin Powell. “Anything more than 80 percent is too much.”
Simon Sinek • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Powell later described the presentation as one of the biggest blunders of his career, a mistake he would attribute to sloppy intelligence and wishful thinking at senior levels of the Bush administration. In reality, every word of the Zarqawi portion of the speech had been written by senior officials of the CIA after weeks of rancorous debate with W
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Former secretary of state Colin Powell says that leadership is the ability to get someone to follow you even if only out of curiosity.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
the last day of his presidency, Clinton warned George Bush and Colin Powell not to trust a word Arafat would say to them.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Marcelo Brandão Cipolla • O lado difícil das situações difíceis: Como construir um negócio quando não existem respostas prontas (Portuguese Edition)
Colin Powell, ex-secretário de Estado, diz que a liderança é a capacidade de fazer alguém seguir você, mesmo que por simples curiosidade.
Marcelo Brandão Cipolla • O lado difícil das situações difíceis: Como construir um negócio quando não existem respostas prontas (Portuguese Edition)
