Motivating Quotes for your day
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“You lead people as a leader. You manage things as a manager. People are not things.”
SNCO Advance Academy Camp Pendleton at Las Pulgas. About 2000 I believe.
One of the few things that stuck with me from all the PME I attended while being a Marine, and I quote this day. Civilians want to manage people. Not lead them I have always noticed. I credit this mindset to my success as a civilian in life.
SNCO Advance Academy Camp Pendleton at Las Pulgas. About 2000 I believe.
One of the few things that stuck with me from all the PME I attended while being a Marine, and I quote this day. Civilians want to manage people. Not lead them I have always noticed. I credit this mindset to my success as a civilian in life.
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That part of leading is the hardest. Remember. My job was to convince young men to assault a position and take it by close fire or hand to hand combat and they would make it if they followed the leadership. Makes your job a lot easier when you have to convince an engineer to be on time and on budget. Plus Puts problems in perspective quickly when you talk to them one on one. I’m like hey. You don’t have to dodge bullets or CQB during the design of an item. 
. And sometimes you know when someone needs to be fired. I couldn’t fire Marines but I could Send them for battalion FAPs.
. And sometimes you know when someone needs to be fired. I couldn’t fire Marines but I could Send them for battalion FAPs. Similar threads
