“If you haven’t read hundreds of books, learning from others who went before you, you are fundamentally illiterate—you can’t coach and you can’t lead.”
― Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
― Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
“Unless you want to lose, you don’t tell an enemy when you are done fighting, and you don’t set an exit unrelated to the situation on the ground.”
― Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
― Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
“Our liberal democracy must be protected by a bodyguard of lethal warriors, organized, trained, and equipped to dominate in battle.”
― Call Sign Chaos
― Call Sign Chaos
“Rebellions, no matter how idealistic in origin, can as often as not produce chaos that often leads to tyranny.”
― Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
― Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
“The things that make a great job great...are rare and valuable. If you want them in your working life, you need something rare and valuable to offer in return In other words, you need to be good at something before you can expect to get a good job.”
― So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
― So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
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