Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.
Interpretation
Effective leaders choose capable team members and guide them with care and vigilance.
This quote emphasizes the importance of leadership in military and organizational contexts, highlighting how successful generals (or leaders) surround themselves with intelligent and brave individuals. It suggests that strong leaders not only select capable officers and advisors but also actively nurture and oversee their teams with a fierce devotion, likening their oversight to a powerful animal, which indicates strength and awareness while also being supportive.
In practice
In a motivational speech about management practices.
Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times of warmth and does not change its leaves in times of cold: it continues unfading through the four seasons, becomes increasingly stable as it passes through ease and danger.
To overcome the intelligent by folly is contrary to the natural order of things; to overcome the foolish by intelligence is in accord with the natural order. To overcome the intelligent by intelligence, however, is a matter of opportunity.
First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others.
Strength is but one aspect of power.
Battles are not won by strength alone!
Nothing is harder to see into thanpeoples nature. The sage looks at subtle phenomena and listens tosmall voices. This harmonizes the outside with the inside and the inside with the outside.
A leader is not someone who says: Follow me.......A leader is someone who says: I'll go first.
People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do.
My first act after being named head coach of the Bulls was to formulate a vision for the team. I had to take into account not only what I wanted to achieve, but how I was going to get there.
I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.
Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.
A movement without vision would be a movement without moral foundation.
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