Colin Powell Quotes About Vision

Quotes about: Vision

• 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

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books

• Have a vision. Be demanding.

  Colin Powell

  Inspiring, Freedom, Business

  Colin Powell (2012). “It Worked for Me (Enhanced Edition): In Life and Leadership”, Harper Collins

• As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Team, Leader

• Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.

  Colin Powell

  Ideas, Empowering, Leader

• Good leaders set vision, missions, and goals. Great leaders inspire every follower at every level to internalize their purpose, and to understand that their purpose goes far beyond the mere details of their job. When everyone is united in purpose, a positive purpose that serves not only the organization but also, hopefully, the world beyond it, you have a winning team.

  Colin Powell

  Jobs, Team, Winning

  Colin Powell (2012). “It Worked for Me (Enhanced Edition): In Life and Leadership”, Harper Collins

• Have a vision; but it's not enough to have a vision, you have to communicate that vision to others. You have to communicate it to people who work with you and for you. You have to communicate it to the world leaders with whom you come in touch.

  Colin Powell

  People, Leader, Vision

  "Transcript: Secretary of State Colin Powell". www.foxnews.com. June 13, 2004.

• Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.

  Colin Powell

  Leader, Vision, Followers

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

• Politics is different, because the mission is always to get the necessary votes. A good politician goes through everything in terms of mission and vision, and resourcing, but at the end of the day politicians have to make compromises in order to achieve consensus.

  Colin Powell

  Order, Vision, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

• With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage.

  Colin Powell

  Vision, Wreckage, Follow Through

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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