In the army, we do two things every day. We train our soldiers, and then we grow them into leaders, because frankly, we don't hire out. We grow our own leaders.
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In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.
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.
Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.
One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.
I worked for the troops my entire time in the United States Armed Forces because we know in the United States Armed Forces that it's not the generals and the colonels that win battles, it's the soldiers: it's the people at the front, the mechanics with their wrenches, the drivers moving the logistics back in the rear.
At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.
I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover.
A military leader should always understand, of all human endeavors... the one that's the most unpredictable and the most costly is warfare.
As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on tactics and strategy. The mission of the infantry is to 'close with, and destroy, the enemy.' Our job, in a direct way, is to fight and win wars.
Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.