Colin Luther Powell A Legendary Leader
Colin Powell has enjoyed a truly extraordinary career. Today, Powell is viewed as a hero by Americans of all strips and also by non-Americans. ... In September 1993, Powell retired from the military with full honors. ... Colin Powell is above all a gentleman. ... Powell believes that good leaders focus ceaselessly on making sure that their best people are the most satisfied. He is the kind of leader who will give big reward to best performers, and get rid of non-performers. Powell is a team player, and he would be the first to say that the leader’s role is to generate organizational consensus. Emphatically, he does not equate consensus with “let’s chew on this until we can all get happy”-a method Powell would see as an abdication of responsibility. Instead, Powell follows his own formula for achieving-and then using-consensus. ... After starting these expectations, Powell is aggressively inclusive. ... That’s why Powell makes it his personal priority to provide people with the necessary resources to successfully compete in the new game. Concurrently, Powell works very hard to earn a personal commitment from every member of his team. ... Even as Powell lays out his new agenda, he spends an enormous amount of time listening, learning, and involving people in the change process. ... Colin Powell is methodical. ... From Powell’s point of view, a plan is only as powerful as the zeal to execute upon which it’s founded.