Carolina QuotesYou must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader. You can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it.
Eric Ken Shinseki Connected to the Carolinas
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Quoted in "Forever Young: Ten Gifts of Faith for the Graduate" - Page 156 - by Pat Williams, Karen Kingsbury - Religion - 2005
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- 2005
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