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You 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.Â And without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

Topics: Commitment, Leader, Arrogance

quote if you don t like change you re going to like irrelevance even less eric shinseki Quotes

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

source: - "No Longer a Soldier, Shinseki Has a New Mission". Article by James Dao, Thom Shanker, www.nytimes.com. November 10, 2009.

Topics: Change, Irrelevance, Innovation

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance..

Topics: Leadership, Arrogance, Vacuums

More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.

source: - "Eric Shinseki, VA Chief, Charts Solid Gains For Veterans". Interview with David Wood, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2012.

Topics: Veteran, Being The Best, Employee

If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.

source: - "Marines Turned Soldiers". National Review Online, December 10, 2001.

Topics: Irrelevance, Dislike

I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.

source: - "New Strategy Vindicates Ex-Army Chief Shinseki" by Thom Shanker, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2007.

Topics: Iraq, Soldier, Dying, My Soldier

It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models... Your generation enabled America to close out the twentieth century as the greatest nation in the history of mankind, the only remaining superpower, the world's leading economy and the world's most respected and feared military force in the world- respected by our friends and allies, feared by our adversaries.

source: - "Rising Sons: The Japanese American GIs Who Fought for the United States". Book by Bill Yenne, 2007.

Topics: Military, Men, America, Military Force, Twentieth Century

I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.

source: - "Shinseki resigns, but will that improve things at VA hospitals?" by Tom Cohen, Drew Griffin, Scott Bronstein, Nelli Black, www.cnn.com. May 31, 2014.

Topics: Leadership, Integrity, Health, Lack Of Integrity

I would say that what's been mobilized to this point - something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required.

source: - "Vets Affairs Pick Known For Contradicting Rumsfeld". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. January 13, 2009.

Topics: Order, Soldier, Would Be

I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s.

Topics: Team, Army, Fields

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